Calculating the Cost

How much is too little for the tsumani victims?. [via The Eagle and Child]

Moreover,

While relief is necessary to help people immediately affected by the crisis, it's not going to solve their greater problem - long term employment, the devastating hit to the overall economy. The media isn't helping either - the inbred urge to sensationalize paints a picture that may be worse than it is.

[via small dead animals]