high-brow humour

A monkey is sitting in a tree smoking a joint when a lizard walks past and looks up and says to the monkey, "Hey! What are you doing?"

The monkey says "smoking a joint, come up and have some."  So the lizard climbs up and sits next to the monkey and they share a few puffs.

After a while the lizard says his mouth is getting dry and he's going to get a drink from the river. But the lizard is so stoned that he leans too far over and falls into the river.

A crocodile sees this and swims over to the lizard to help him to the side. When they're safely on the riverbank, the crocodile asks the lizard, "So what's the matter with you?"

The lizard explains to the crocodile that he was sitting smoking a joint with the monkey in the tree, got too stoned and then fell into the river while taking a drink.

The crocodile says he has to check this out and walks into the jungle, finds the tree were the monkey is sitting, finishing a joint. The crocodile looks up and says "Hey!"

The Monkey looks down, shakes his head, and says, "Fuuuuuuuuck..... Duuuuuuude.....how much water did you drink?!!"

Michael Moore on Katrina aid

This article by Moore discusses what he and some of his staff have begun to do to help out in New Orleans, including the coordination of useful efforts with other aid groups in the area. Some of his recent posts have been, as could be expected, scathing in their criticism of Bush and his cronies for their lack of effective response in Katrina's aftermath. In any event, I always appreciate hearing about good stuff that's being done on the ground in situations like this.

On a sort of related note, interdictor's LJ is still up and running, and I think he's still holed up in the same data center in New Orleans and I think he also still has a live web cam showing what's up where he's at.

One of the things that makes me saddest is the animals who are suffering as a result of the storm. FYI, this news release from the International Fund for Animal Welfare describes some ongoing efforts; Petfinder.com has an established search and rescue effort here; and this animal rescue org has posted a wish list of needed items here.