This week's tip of the Black Hat goes to...

...Mark Sullivan, author of Irish Elk, who said the right thing, at the right time:

"Heaven knows, I'm the last person to be accusing anyone else of indifference. I don't pay attention to every tragedy in the news. All of us have lives to lead. And what can we do, anyway?

A very small thing we bloggers can do is to pass on stories that need to be told, to add our piece to the samizdat, as it were, in the hope a critical mass will be reached..."