THANKS FOR LOOKING IN. The referral logs suggest the presence of extra readers looking at the charitable recommendations. I trust you did write your checks. I have. Other sites are doing yeoman work keeping up with the news; you know who they are. Here are a couple of finds of interest. Blue Star father Donald Sensing notes that the Marines have arrived, and their job description is "an amphibious force for whom flooding is no hindrance." Will at Vodka Pundit has discovered ... I am not making this up ... a weblog being posted from an office somewhere in New Orleans.