Katrina

Its all just so sad, makes me depressed. I mean every once in a while, its as if Nature is trying to remind us of our place, that no matter what technologies we have, there is only so much we can do. My heart goes out for all the people who have endured this tragedy.

Please help in any way you can, but don’t get swayed away by emotions. Believe it or not, there are people out there trying to make money off of this natural calamity, and its shameful. [[http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/31/watch_out_for_phony_.html|Watch out for phony Katrina aid scam websites]].

[[http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2005/09/01/opinions/columnists/muir/106691.txt|Its amazing]] how in the midst of all this chaos, people can actually go about [[http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-083005looters_wr,0,562628.story?coll=la-home-headlines|looting]], even [[http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050831-07295700-bc-us-katrina-looters.xml|hospitals]].

Disgusting.

**UPDATE 2005/09/01 via BoingBoing**: White people [[http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050830/photos_ts_afp/050830071810_shxwaoma_photo1/print|find]], but black people [[http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050830/480/ladm10908301723/print|loot]]. I’m not saying that the statements in those pictures are false, because I don’t know. But the choice of words still sounds me as striking.