Here comes Rita ... (some new pix, too)

Talk about kicking them when they're down -- people who finally made it to Houston two weeks ago have to move again, because here comes Hurricane Rita -- a category 4, soon to be a category 5. Good Lord, please spare them.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is trying very hard to look like he's on top of things, and urged residents in the potentially affected areas to evacuate.

"The lesson is that when the storm hits, the best place to be is to be out of the path of the storm," he told ABC's "Good Morning America." "There's plenty of [advance] notice about Rita."
You know, Michael, there was plenty of advance notice about Katrina, too. Nice to see you guys finally woke the f*$% up.

In other news, Miss Maggie fell asleep for a while, so I got to do up some recent pictures. First, my little couch potatoes (I rarely get pictures of them together, sitting peacefully rather than mauling each other):



Laz and Maggie had a great time at my parents' party here last month -- Maggie looks kind of dazed after some major sandbox and swingset play with bigger kids, two purloined cupcakes, and no nap:




And here's the little guy on his very first day of school ever:



I have more in the camera but have to go pick Laz up from school, so they'll have to wait till God knows when. Maybe Maggie will nap again tomorrow morning....