Katrina Relief
Thankfully, most of my friends in the New Orleans area have checked in to say that they're OK, although some of them have no idea what they'll come back to when they do go home. In the meantime, once Amazon gets its charity house in order, the same donation link I provided for the tsunamis will be on this site. I like giving through Amazon, but mainly because it's the devil I know. If you have a preferred way of giving to help, please do so when you can.
In the meantime, it's interesting to read Professor Bainbridge's take on how bankruptcy law should affect giving to Catholic charities. He's right, of course: anyone giving to an individual parish risks their donation eventually ending up fodder for a lawyer's contingency fee. For sheer strength, the Law of Unintended Consequences beats the Laws of Gravity any day of the week.