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With the nation drowning in the endless tale of Katrina, the disaster that didn't have to happen, it's easy to forget that the Senate is presently going through the motions of advising the president on his pick for Supreme Court Chief Justice. Herewith, your blogstress's latest opinionating at The American Prospect Online on that very subject.

From your blogstress's favorite pen-pal, Studley Do-Right at Delusional Duck , comes this little gem : Commanders Ordered Not To Fire Gays Until War's End Santa Barbara, California--Scholars studying military personnel policy have discovered a document halting the discharge of gay soldiers in units that are about to be mobilized. source: Gay.com

From your blogstress's homegirl radio station in Newark, New Jersey, comes this story on the Web site of WBGO-FM , perhaps the best jazz station in the world: Dr. Critty Hymes has been a staff physician with the Charity Hospital in New Orleans for the past 27 years. She evacuated the city early Sunday morning just before the storm hit. From a family members home in Houston she watched in horror as her home town filled with water and thousands of people were left to fend for themselves. "I know a lot of these people were my patients from Charity Hospital." As soon as evacuees were bused to the Astrodome, she went with her medical credentials to volunteer and was stunned to be turned away at the door. "I'm a doctor. I have 27 years of experence in OBGYN and all I wanted to do was help." After visiting the Red Cross, entering her name and credientials on an internet medical volunteer database and getting a call from officials at the Astrodome , she has yet to b...