Good morning.
MSNBC is reporting that several hours after landfall, Ike is still a Category 2 hurricane with winds of 100 mph
Check out Bob Geiger's compilation of the week's editorial cartoons. You'll get some needed laughs. Those cartoonists say so much by combining just a few words and artistic ability.
Take a moment to read "And Yet the Books" by Lithuanian poet Czeslaw Milosz. Short and powerful, the last line is:
"Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born,All of those books wouldn't be there on the shelf if a certain Wasilla Mayor had her way.
Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.
Then, back to reality...