Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Good Stuff Abounds

It's very easy to be overwhelmed by all the grief and bad news coming out of the south. Every day we hear a new horror story that resulted in death or a terrible loss that will take a very long time to get over. How do you deal with shock after tragedy after horror?

For my family we try and find the good stories mixed in with the bad. Every time we hear of a family reuniting or a friend given up for dead who is found alive we are comforted. When we read of the every day folk who managed to pull of heroic rescues we're filled with pride.

I'm looking for good in the financial news we publish, HUD is opening up thousands of homes for the displaced. Freddie Mac has suspended mortgage payments due for victims for three months. The VA is going to let evacuated people use 5100 of their foreclosed properties. There are lots of stories like these and we can feel better when we read them. Someone is doing something that appears to be the right thing.

And of course we look for the good stuff in day to day life. I was very pleased and excited to see that Cory Doctorow's Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town was chosen as this week's skiffy book club selection for my county public library. That's exciting and wicked cool.

3 Comments:

At 12:43 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

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At 9:07 AM, Blogger Georgiana said...

That was funny. Someone left some comment spam that could actually have been viewed as a legitimate comment on the right thread. It was for a "mortgage payment" site (really a link farm) and would have worked if they had bothered to post it to one of my job related posts. Since I moderate the largest mortgage topic related discussion board and work on mortgage news websites, I am actually qualified to give advice on how well a mortgage related site is working.

Silly comment spammers.

 
At 9:31 PM, Blogger Georgiana said...

Carleton Sheets? You have got to be kidding me.

The guy is a crook who gets fat on the blood on the distressed homeowners. Comment spam is bad enough but comment spam like this is totally appalling. You disgust me.

 

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