Prayers for a battered nation

     It's stunning, really: Louisiana and Mississippi hammered by floods, much of the South and the Midwest ripped apart by tornadoes . . . 100 people dead in Joplin, Missouri, by the latest
estimate. . .

     I'm not sure what to add to what I've already said, save to articulate whatever passes for a secular man's prayer (our language is oddly unaccommodating on the matter) and to thank the New York Times for at least offering adequate coverage of the Joplin disaster so far.

     Finally, if any of my readers can refer me to any viable online fundraising efforts, I'd be more than happy to  donate. My fellow Americans deserve as much.