Time for a few days off for time with friends and family. Nothing new here until Tuesday when we’ll be back in full force on new servers that should be able to better able to handle the traffic. In our absence, do yourself a favor and check out some of the links to the right, in particular:

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We’ll leave you with this charming tale that Jason predicted on Sunday and I nailed the “number of hours ’til fruition” over/under:

So when Hurricane Katrina hit land yesterday, we knew it was only a matter of time before we’d be hearing from the lunatic fringe again. And now, here it is. In an email message we just received, a group calling itself Columbia Christians for Life alerts us to the fact that a satellite image of Hurricane Katrina as it hit the Gulf Coast Monday looks just like a six-week old fetus.

“The image of the hurricane . . . with its eye already ashore at 12:32 p.m. Monday, August 29, looks like a fetus (unborn human baby) facing to the left (west) in the womb, in the early weeks of gestation (approx. 6 weeks),” the email message says. “Even the orange color of the image is reminiscent of a commonly used pro-life picture of early prenatal development.”

And in case you’re not getting the point, the email message spells it out in black and white: “Louisiana has 10 child-murder-by-abortion centers,” the groups says, and “five are in New Orleans.”

Kidding aside, help if you can.