Putting life in perspective

My buddy in New Orleans told me he thinks the flooding didn't hit his area too badly. But since his family's in Texas, and he's in Virginia, he doesn't know for sure. And, as he told me, "of course, I don't know if the tree fell on dad's house, or if the wind pulled off the roof or not." But they're all ok, obviously. Some people aren't.

My boss, Ken, (the one I've been refering to as IdiotBoy all summer, and now feel incredibly bad about), got a phone call this morning at work, telling him that one of his very good friends was killed in Iraq.

It makes everything I think is wrong with my own life seem very petty.

Everybody on my F-list rocks, btw. Just thought I'd let you all know. Life's too short to forget to mention things like that.

Odd...very odd.

Okay. I got my first nasty review at PS. I think...I mean, I'm not sure. It's so poorly worded, I'm only guessing at what this fellow meant. Maybe I'm just being dense:
QUOTE:
Their Review:

Before you read this story, or after or even whenever, please take a minute to pray to your particular deity, or even just think special thoughts about all the folks who will be affected by Hurricane Katrina.

“You’re absolutely right, Harry. In fact, somewhere in that article on the front page, it says that a delegation from America, comprised of wizards from Amnesty International and the American Wizard Civil Liberties Union, is coming over to petition Arthur to commute Malfoy’s sentence.” “Bloody hell,” Harry groaned.

Keep your hopes up! Perhaps Katrina took down some of the bad guys!

Sorry for the acid comment, I don't want to start a flame war about death penalty, but I cannot remain silent when someone endorses charity and compassion and immediately afterwards publicly denigrates human rights activism.
/QUOTE

So...anyone want to try and explain that to me?

I'm not going to respond to this poor fellow regardless. Besides, I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.