Katrina

You expect a post of the government response? FUCK NO! Read about that shit on your own time. Let's think constructively, shall we?

Like all great ideas, this came to me in the bathroom:

NATIONAL
DRINK FOR HURRICANE RELIEF
NIGHT

One night in the whole year that you can actually justify drinking at a bar alone, or mean it when you say "I'm drinking to stop the dying," to say "Hey mom, my drinking isn't the problem; it's the solution." Essentially, we would have to send out an APB to all the bars in America (because all of them run the Booze line of Unix servers put out by Sun Microsystems) saying that "on (month) (day) we will be charging $1 more on each drink people buy which the entirety will go towards aid for Katrina."

Say the beer companies put this out a month in advance, you could get the PR machine all greased up and moving not to sell you on why you need a big pool in your backyard with 17, if not 18 bikini cladded women in it, but to mobilize people to come out, show some support by doing something they'd be doing anyway on the weekends: getting shloshed.

That would be some corporate gusto. Not only are you selling more beer that night, but you're also raising a shitload of money for people who need it. The fundamental question, "What can I do?" can be posed by corporations just as much it can be by a person to themselves.