Five more inches of rain in Myanmar today. Please give.

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The righteous.

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Ruth points us to the news that a grocery chain in North Texas is giving out free prenatal vitamins to expectant mothers. Great!

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Please give. Their country is completely overwhelmed, with 22,000 dead.

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One of my co-workers has been in the hospital since January as they tried to identify the cause of his infection and internal bleeding. They finally identified the source as one of the artificial hips he’d had implanted after he was hit by a drunk driver in 1995, suffering two broken hips and a severe […]

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I love stories like this. It made me cry:
In the second game of a doubleheader, WOU’s Sara Tucholsky slammed what appeared to be a three-run homer over the centerfield fence, the senior’s first in either high school or college. But Tucholsky wrenched her knee at first base and collapsed.
Umpires ruled that a pinch-runner could replace […]

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An interview with Ken Wilber.

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As I like to say to some of my younger, snarkier friends, “I’ve never known anyone on their deathbed who said, ‘You know, I really wish I’d been meaner to people.’”
And that’s why stories like this make me glad.

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I thought this was sweet. New Hampster, a MyDD poster who was volunteering for Clinton in Scranton, made a special trip to Hugh Rodham’s grave today to drop off a few things:

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It pains me to admit it, but I really liked David Brooks’ column today.

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But not enough:
(CBS/AP) President Bush on Monday ordered the release of $200 million in emergency aid to help nations where surging food prices have deepened hunger woes and sparked violent protests.
The move comes one day after the president of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, called on the international community to act urgently in helping needy […]

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I wish her trust had been validated:
An Italian woman artist who was hitch-hiking to the Middle East dressed as a bride to promote world peace has been found murdered in Turkey.
The naked body of Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, 33, known as Pippa Bacca, was found in bushes near the city of Gebze on Friday.
She had […]

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Ashley Morris, the great NOLA blogger and activist, is dead. Scout has more:

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A post via Corrente about trafficking in humans - and what Hillary Clinton did about it as First Lady.

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Things are particularly bad in Ohio.
You can donate to area food banks online, here, here and here.

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Brad and Angelina put their money where their mouths are.

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Pelosi successfully pushes ethics reform bill, creating outside ethics panel to hear complaints.
If you only knew. As a reporter, I was astounded at the things that were permissible for members of Congress. This is a big step in the right direction, and Pelosi deserves credit.

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Oh please, enough with the Martin Luther King Jr. comparisons. Black man? Check. Eloquent? Check. Well then, he must be just like Martin Luther King! (I don’t think the media minions know of any other black orators. But then, they do live in a perpetual knowledge vacuum.)
Martin Luther King Jr. risked his freedom, his very […]

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Don’t know if y’all are the ardent fans of Christopher Moore that I am, but I just had to share his awesome post about some loonies declaring BO the Antichrist. The whole thing is worth reading, but the final paragraph is why I love him so fiercely:
Here’s the thing that I’m really saying. Nearly all […]

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From the part I caught, it sounded good but not great. (And there were parts I just didn’t like, but I think that had more to do with his low-key delivery.) But it actually reads much stronger than it sounded.
The question now is, will the people he needs to win back actually listen?
I can […]

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Nice interview with M. Scott Peck, author of the longtime bestseller, “The Road Less Traveled.”

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to the peace sign.

This forked symbol was designed for the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War (DAC) and was adopted as its badge by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in Britain, and originally was used by the British nuclear disarmament movement. It was later generalised to become an international icon for the 1960s anti-war […]

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I can understand his concerns. Greg Sargent:
An Edwards aide confirms to me that John Edwards met privately with Hillary on Thursday to discuss the possibility of making an endorsement, and will meet with Obama tomorrow, as first reported by Mark Halperin.
The Edwards aide gave me a bunch more detail, including this: “There’s a greater than […]

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It’s really bad, and they need it:
CASTALIAN SPRINGS, Tenn., Feb. 6 — The searchers had already gone over the field once.
It seemed unlikely that anything else would turn up. It was dark and rainy, and amid the awesome wreckage left by the tornado that had just passed here they had already found three dead. Some […]

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