You know about the disaster happening down South, right?
Nope, not talking about the oil spill in the Gulf (horrendous though that is.) I refer to the "Nashville" Flood, which actually extends over a much wider swath of Tennessee and Kentucky. You could hardly be blamed if you haven't noticed the extent of the damage, since most media sources have been all-but-ignoring this event, in the wake of the spill and the Times Square bombing. Thanks to Sherin for sharing a very good piece that Bob Sellers put together on the subject. Thanks also to Vince Gill and Taylor Swift and a bunch of other country musicians for getting out there and lending a serious hand and raising some awareness.
Ok, you can say what you want about posting other people's photos.
And yes, maybe this does belong in FU Penguin.
But seriously - in the middle of a hard week, who doesn't want to see this photo of a baby turtle breaking out of its shell?
Just don't go digging too deeply into Suddenly, Last Summer to extend the metaphor...
Speaking of things you don't have control over...
While it's tempting to use this image of a bank in Haiti as an illustration of the financial system in general, it's too palpable an illustration of too immediate a disaster.
Please send thoughts, prayers, wishes, dances and songs of goodwill, whatever you can muster. And maybe click here for some ideas of more concrete things you can do.
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