Help Tsunami Victims

Political comments are forthcoming: for now, please donate money to your favorite aid agency to help victims of the 2004 Tsunami.

For details, link to and read "2004 Tsunami: How Foodies Can Help.

Forward the link http://www.superchefblog.com/2004/12/2004-tsunami-how-foodies-can-help.html. There are links to numerous agencies as well as summary news and many many more links.

Smallbites has already created a link and forwarded the word by email.

Five Easy Pieces? Democratic Reform

Political consultant for California's Assembly Democrats and also a UPI contributor Patrick Reddy has offered five ideas to reform the Democratic Party's platform in a recent article because "Democrats need some new thinking," especially if they plan to unseat Republican incumbents.

He proposes reform in Welfare, Healthcare, Taxes, Pensions, and Immigration, which share between them the common theme that individual security at less cost than the Great Society programs of the 1960s.

Among other suggestions, he also proposes that Democrats learn to speak "Middle American" better.

(Click here to read the full article.)