""Now we're seeing the upside. Thousands of people from all walks of life coming together to help clean up the mess. Suddenly we have a sense of community. No doubt our right-wing friends will find a way of denigrating and belittling these people as well.2"

Why in Hell's name would we do that?

Unless of course you are claiming that the ones cleaning up are the same ones who were looting, in which case I'd advise a change of meds.

It is one of the most heartening things to come out of this, that more people seem to agree with me than with you, and as a result the police are currently being inundated with calls identifying the pictures on Facebook.

The other is the action you quote above, lest we forget that the stinking thieves are, in fact, a minority. Good to see the kind of sharing community spirit I was talking about in my last but one post.

Don T.