Wrod, ita. Mostly, I think it's the juxtaposition of the tender healer with the vigilante and...suddenly my response to Emma Zoole coffin sex isn't quite so novel, huh? I was a freak pre- H:LOTS, and pre- S/B. I did not know this!

They should have a permissible naptime at work.

I used to work at a place with a nap room. Until they turned it into more cubes.

All these cable channels are like CRACK. I'm finally seeing 13 Going On 30! And I have Harold and Kumar waiting on the DVR!

A lucky business in Jefferson Parish:

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Perhaps the luckiest business owners were the Radas, whose snowball stand, Big Will's Snowballs, survived not only Katrina's winds and waters, but also managed to keep its electricity.

Inside the Williams Boulevard stand, Tim Rada described how he's been filling coolers and bottles with tap water from St. Charles Parish that he says is safe and then freezing it to help make about 1,000 snowballs the business sold since reopening four days earlier.

"People come to the window, and they're so amazed to find us open, they can't even speak at first," said his wife, LaDean. "Then they're like, 'Give us anything.'"

The Chicago Tribune's "in the news" photos (I can't link to them directly, but the link is in the left column) has some great pics, from a camel for Aimee, to a shot of the OTP of Barack and Bill, and two sweet kid pics, one of a boy dancing at his first day of school (I just want to eat him up, he's so cute!), and the other of a little girl at a petting zoo.

aw, to the story about Barack, Bill, and the heart.

Just saw this over at ThinkProgress:

At a press conference this afternoon, President George H. W. Bush singled out the Walton Family for their generosity to Katrina relief efforts:

I don’t think anyone would mind if I singled out the chairman and CEO of Wal-Mart, Lee Scott, who is right here. He told us that they gave the Bush-Clinton fund a total of $23 million…$15 million from the company and then $8 million more from the Walton family, the marvelous philanthropists that they are.

Let’s put that in perspective. The Walton family’s net worth is $90 billion. So $8 million dollars represents .009 percent of their total.

The average family’s net worth is $86,100. If an average family contributed at the same rate as the Waltons, they’d donate $7.74.

There are thousands of families all around country that are being far more generous to Katrina victims than the Waltons. Few of them will be personally thanked by a former President.

Well, I don't see anything wrong with acknowledging one of the companies that stepped forward first, probably encouraging a lot of others to do the same. Especially in the absence of any federal activity worthy of note.

'Course, I also don't have a problem with pointing out Walmart's role as the armorer of choice to the worst element in New-Orleans-that-was.

There's probably a stipulation that no one from the Bush-Clinton fund can mention any of Wal-Mart's competitors (see Paige Arena in Columbia, MO [link]

Pierce Brosnan barefoot and painting. More here.

Some good news -- my mother's car is largely okay and has been retrieved from New Orleans with nothing worse than a flat tire. My grandparents' house had a little bit of water, but nothing terrible, and most of my other relatives who live in Jefferson Parish made out okay.

That's fine news. I'm glad.