Pants Crappingly Scary

To steal a line from the Daily Show... This sums up what went down in southeast Asia following the earthquake and tsunami in December. I was deeply concerned especially after visiting Thailand in November. Koh Samui is a beautiful island and its inhabitants are just as lovely. As soon as I heard the news, my thoughts were with the nice people I had met. While I was there, one of the workers mentioned the monsoon season and how rough it could be. Obviously the tsunami had that beat. The blogger community response to this event has been huge. Bloggers posted information and photos of the missing. They also publicized a number of charities that were taking donations. I hope the money is actually getting to the people instead of the pockets of government officials. I think the Red Cross, the East Timor Action Network (Aceh is seriously hurting--especially with the questionable human rights practices prior to the tsunami), and Doctors Without Borders are solid organizations to give money to.
I'm heading off to work so I can't comment fully but suffice to say that I was amazed that FOX News didn't cover this story when it first broke. Pundits prattled on over their typical targets while the world fell apart. Perhaps they didn't care because it didn't happen on U.S. soil and many of those effected were of a different color?