Unrelated, yes, I suppose.

But this week Myanmar has gained my attention.  Literally swept me away from thoughts of the US Presidential election.

Myanmar was hit by one hell of a cyclone and the people there were badly off before it even happened.  The fact that dead and bloated bodies are being left out in the open and food is trying to be dropped to these people only to be fought over by the strongest men in the area, leaving old people and kids to starve, really makes me feel angry that I am helpless to help.

It also makes me angry that until this week I didn't even know Myanmar existed.  It used to be Burma, which I could probably have been able to point to on a map when I was in school back in the day.  How and why it became Myanmar is beyond me, even after reading Wikipedia tonight.

I would love to help these people, but better and less geographically challenged American citizens than I who knew where it was and how to try to get aid there are already trying.  So far, to no avail.

For a clear picture of what's going on, all you need do is go to Yahoo and it's on the front page.

Also there is a new post by AP's Nedra Pickler about white voters in America.  As if this needs to be the hot topic tonight while people are devastated in a place where they can't get help because their own government won't let them get it, Nedra is pushing a story about working class American voters.

I don't know much about Nedra.  I tried to wiki her too, and found that she was born in 1975 and therefore is younger than me.  She jumped up into journalism very quickly and covered the 2000 and 2004 elections and was known to have not helped Kerry much.

I know she sure as hell doesn't help Obama much, because she's been writing crap about him for a year. 

I don't really have a point here, other than to say....I wish Nedra Pickler would go to Myanmar and cover the important story going on over there, instead of writing pithy little non-stories about what's going on over here.