Author: Kevin

The Bonfire of the Vanities (a self-submitted collection of the worst posts by otherwise excellent bloggers) is hosted by Centerpiece this week. Visit The Bonfire If you want to …

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Here's the first paragraph from a front page article on Wednesday's Washington Post titled "Aid Grows Amid Remarks About President's Absence":The Bush administration more than doubled its financial commitment …

Translated from EXPRESSEN.SE:Just minutes after the earthquake in the Indian Ocean on Sunday morning, Thailand's foremost meteorological experts were sitting together in a crisis meeting. But they decided not …

Hellmut Issels' Phuket Island Photo Gallery, featuring a larger version of the thumbnail picture above. All of the videos...

Pity The New York Times can't take a page from the BBC in remembering one of the NFL's all time greats - Reggie White. They insist on bringing up …

Jan Egeland, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, bemoans western democracies as "too stingy". Selected quotes from his now infamous "stingy" press briefing. Via …

As more sites are visited by rescuers the death toll from this weekends tsunamis is expected to pass 50,000.BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - Mourners in Sri Lanka used their …

Click for more pictures That's a tsunami (tidal wave) hitting the beach on Thailand's Phuket Island. More details available...

Given the magnitude of the catastrophe in the Indian Ocean region it's easy to overlook the fact that several portions of the air traffic system went kaput over the …