Mpls from the south, from dietpoison’s Flickr photostream. My deepest compassion to you folks in my home away from home. [Later notes: Noah Kunin of the blog Blanked Out wrote up the I-35 bridge collapse after witnessing it and doing everything he could to help folks. Via Shakespeare’s Sister. And

Call me a breathless groupie, call me what you like, I don’t care. I’m all a-dither because I just read on Echidne of the Snakes that Katha Pollitt has a blog, entitled And Another Thing! I mean, her Subject to Debate columns have been run on The Nation’s online venue