The Tsunami Toll Climbs
The news was unimaginably horrible a day and a half ago, and it just keeps getting worse. Every news outlet is reporting the death toll and articles about the calamity, so I'll try to give you links to some aspects you may not have seen.

Jordan Golson at Cheese and Crackers has links to 3 horrifying amateur videos of the tsunami, as well as other informative links (via LGF).



Cox & Forkum offers this editorial cartoon and makes the point that affluent countries can protect its citizens from natural disasters, and that the tsunami's victims were disproportionately poor.

Finally, Hugh Hewitt recommended giving to the relief effort through World Vision, so ball-and-chain immediately got on line and donated $75. When she told me, I initially balked and may have proposed some sensible objection like the fact that that's not really money we have. She promptly reminded me that there are a million displaced people, and that soon cholera and dysentery will be rampant. She reminded me that while we're at risk of getting into more debt, we won't lose our home, our kids won't be hungry, and we will definitely have electricity and water and working sewers. At that point I thanked her for doing the right thing and shut up.

Now it's your turn. - served up by Doctor Bean @ 10:26 PM