Pleas in the electronic aether

My friend V forwarded a blog post from Saladin Ahmed earlier today. (Sorry I didn't reply, V! Busy day...)

Saladin Ahmed, if you didn't already know is the author of "Throne of the Crescent Moon". This book is possibly the best novel I've read in 2012 thus far.

Ahmed is very straightforward in his post. I'm not going to make any moral judgments or claims about who deserves what aid or why and I'm not going to try to persuade. Times are tight. I just wanted to pass this along.