Wonkette

• Help the foul-mouthed spokesman of Gulfport rebuild his house: The star of the “Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney” video is auctioning it off. [eBay]
• All together now: “No one could have predicted the levees would break.” But they knew it was going to be one asshole of a storm: “MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS…AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD…PERSONS…PETS…AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK.” [NOAA]
• A psychiatrist goes crazy trying to help at the Reunion Center. [AddieStan]
• The Washington Post immediate hurricane coverage blew. [City Paper]
• Really excellent news tracking from the WSJ. Read the whole thing, as they say. [WSJ]
• Local events and benefits, including one by “The Museum of the American Cocktail.” [DCist]
• Express your desire to sit on Trent Lott’s porch. [www.trentlottsporch.com]
• NBC correspondents attack puppy-like Scott McCellan, save actual puppy. [FishbowlDC,MSNBC]
• A partial (2/3) explaination of why we’re so rabid on the animal rescue front. [The Antic Muse]

From an online chat with Marc Fisher, empathy-disabled WaPo columnist:

Crofton, Md.: Hi Marc — Question about human behavior (mine). I am horrified at the destruction along the Gulf Coast. I see bodies in the water and felt terrible but sadly not half as bad as I feel when I see a dog, cat, etc., dead or in distress from the storm! Am I hopeless? I can look at CNN and watch coverage of body removal but I immediately turn the channel when it is an animal! Why? MORE »

“Joseph Barns, right, carries his cat Patches on his shoulder as he is evacuated from the Superdome in New Orleans Saturday afternoon.”

[Bart Boatwright/Greenville Online]

Some Katrina survivors managed the miracle of saving their pets as well as themselves — a reminder, we think, that not everyone behaves like animals. Since many shelters don’t allow four-legged evacuees, please consider giving to one of the organizations that assists pet owners and their companions. MORE »

We’d really like to start drinking tonight knowing that the people at the Convention Center are too. MORE »