HURRICANE DISASTER RELIEF

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The Presbyterian Church (USA) has established a response page on behalf of those who need relief as a result of Hurricane Katrina. Please give as you can. Thanks to all who have already given.

Please Give Here

Glenn Reynolds is maintaining a long list of other aid organizations.

As usual, please be careful if you decide to give online. There are some unsavory folks out there who may try to scam good-hearted people with fraudulent donation scams.

Intense War Reporting from Iraq

Michael Yon has been all over the blogosphere lately with his amazing first-hand accounts of U.S. military operations in Iraq. I just read Yon's Gates of Fire entry, and it's astonishing. Also astonishing is the fact that you cannot read stuff like this in any newspaper that I'm aware of.

Hugh Hewitt interviewed Yon via satellite phone. Radioblogger has the transcript here.

Dogbert Starts a Religion

An interesting Dilbert:

Who Will Win?

Why isn't Chris Muir in any newspapers yet?

Life Is Good

Dusk Yellows and blacks form the dusk Silhouettes line my eye with visions of dark and light. I see them twice, and twice am seen by the wandering eye bulbs of those shadows following and leading me. Haunting rose-lined cotton fills my headlined blue lake sky. -Composed 8/23/2000

Life Is Good Originally uploaded by Fintan.

Back in the Saddle Again

I've been away from the blog since Grandma passed. I'm back now. More bloggy goodness is forthcoming.

In Memoriam

Grandma passed into her eternal reward in the early hours of the morning.

I remember my affliction and my wandering,
the bitterness and the gall.

I well remember them,
and my soul is downcast within me.

Yet this I call to mind
and therefore I have hope:

Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.

They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.

I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion;
therefore I will wait for him." - Lamentations 3:19-24

I miss you already grandma. Go with God.