When spinning tire rims just aren't bling enough... Tire Tagz! It has a Z! It is eXtreem!!!!

Eurovision winning songs: all the the kitsch and talent of Eurovision winners going back to 1956. [Each song is streaming/.wma format] more inside

FEMA, so, so, infuriatingly sad. (WM video) "Let me give you just three quick examples. We had Wal-Mart deliver three trucks of water, trailer trucks of water. FEMA turned them back. ...FEMA--we had 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel on a Coast Guard vessel docked in my parish. The Coast Guard said, "Come get the fuel right away." When we got there with our trucks, they got a word. "FEMA says don't give you the fuel." Yesterday--yesterday--FEMA comes in and cuts all of our emergency communication lines. They cut them without notice. Our sheriff, Harry Lee, goes back in, he reconnects the line. He posts armed guards on our line and says, "No one is getting near these lines." Sheriff Harry Lee said that if America--American government would have responded like Wal-Mart has responded, we wouldn't be in this crisis". Testimony from Aaron Broussard president of Jefferson Parish in New Orleans. At the end of the clip, he tells another story that just breaks the heart. There's just nothing else to say.

Kanye West is Mad at George Bush Kanye West blasts the president while Mike Myers looks on awkwardly during Friday's live benefit aired on NBC. Link opens to video clip.

Open letter from Michael Moore Here

Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.

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Furious George: CafePress No Longer Does It. CafePress is no longer offering stainless steel travel mugs. Who else offers one-shot custom drinkware? more inside

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Why I Love America

US Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Rehnquist died today. We now have two Supreme Court openings. Who are the front runners? And... get ready for another messy round o' politics! more inside

"It's going to look like Little Somalia" I really didn't want to add to the noise, but this just has to be read and comprehended by as many people as possible: The United States Army is preparing to stage combat operations against "the insurgency" in New Orleans. You know, the citizens who were abandoned by their government to drown, burn, starve, murder one another or otherwise shrivel up and die of some other disaster-related cause. (link via boingboing) more inside

Louisiana's wetlands - gone with the water. An October 2004 National Geographic article on Louisiana's disappearing coastal marshes, and how that could lead to the destruction and flooding of the city in a hurricane. more inside

Curious George: Donating Money for Katrina relief. There are so many organizations out there collecting. Would I be better off donating smaller amounts to several of them, or is there one organization that is worthy of everything I want to donate? Where would a donation best be served? Red Cross? Habitat for Humanity? So many to choose from...