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Originally posted by Spanky
Again. I don't get your defensive reaction to Sean Penn. He is someone you should disavow and not focus on. The guy is a nut job. When conservatives make jokes about him you should just let it pass. But why defend him?

I don't care to defend Sean Penn. I'm just annoyed that with all of the stories from the Gulf Coast that matter, someone wasted the time and electrons to report that his boat was leaking.

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Another reporter saw this:

• "In the chaos that was Causeway Boulevard, this group of refugees stood out: a 6-year-old boy walking down the road, holding a 5-month-old, surrounded by five toddlers who followed him around as if he were their leader":
  
  They were holding hands. Three of the children were about 2 years old, and one was wearing only diapers. A 3-year-old girl, who wore colorful barrettes on the ends of her braids, had her 14-month-old brother in tow. The 6-year-old spoke for all of them, and he told rescuers his name was Deamonte Love.
  
  Thousands of human stories have flown past relief workers in the last week, but few have touched them as much as the seven children who were found wandering together Thursday at an evacuation point in downtown New Orleans. In the Baton Rouge headquarters of the rescue operation, paramedics tried to coax their names out of them; nurses who examined them stayed up that night, brooding.
  
  Transporting the children alone was "the hardest thing I've ever done in my life, knowing that their parents are either dead" or that they had been abandoned, said Pat Coveney, a Houston emergency medical technician who put them into the back of his ambulance and drove them out of New Orleans.
  
  "It goes back to the same thing," he said. "How did a 6-year-old end up being in charge of six babies?"

LA Times

Heartbreaking, but I guess it's not as much fun as ridiculing Sean Penn.