Chris Nolan on Katrina 

She's all over this on her blog, Politics from Left to Right. I sure do like her. Did you know about the flood in 1927 in Greenville, MS? Chris points out the Randy Newman song about it that nobody really noticed when it was sung on the NBC benefit broadcast. There's a book about it, too, that's selling like hotcakes. From the book review of Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. (Review is on the NYT site, where you have to log in to see the archives.)

...Mr. Barry gives us is a chronicle in which greed, cowardice, arrogance, racism, cruelty, lust for power and plain ignorance combined in a fetid brew -- the leaders of New Orleans callously sacrificing two neighboring parishes in order to protect the city, then cheating their victims out of fair recompense; plantation owners and local governments holding thousands of blacks against their will to insure a supply of labor...

Man, that flood inspired a lot of art. Robert Frost wrote a poem about it. Ton of blues songs, too. Lots of people split for good, and that's how the blues made it up here to Chicago, on an Illinois Central train they call the City of New Orleans.

Documented: kids help adults figure out the internet 

According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, more than 4 out of 5 teens (82%) say they've helped an adult with an internet problem.