If there must be evil in the world, let there at least be more stories like this. All hail to Victor Perez for taking action to save a child. He should get a medal, and probably will.

As did Staff Sergeant Robert J. Miller today, though sadly posthumously. The story from Threedonia blog is here.

On a far more trivial note, here’s the history of that traditional nuisance, the chain letter. Tip: Mirabilis. I note that, while a Methodist missionary school provides “one of the earliest known” instances, they apparently didn’t actually invent it.

Lastly, today’s Virtual Book Tour stop is Pump Up Your Book.

And with that, I leave you.