Women Shake it Up: Ann Coulter (hot seat), Daryl Hannah (up a tree) and Katrina (show us the money?)

Looks like it's women's day in the blogosphere, what with ultra-conservative author Ann Coulter (today's third most-blogged-about person) on the hot seat again for her latest book, the timidly (ahem) titled Godless: The Church of Liberalism. People either hate her (Henry Rollins' "love" letter here, with a language warning) or love her (Update: the Rollins video has been removed). Most days, we just wish she'd go away.

Darryl, come down?
Actress Daryl Hannah (today's fifth burstiest person) made a news splash this week, too (no pun intended, or maybe it was) by climbing a tree to protest the destruction of a 14-acre garden in Los Angeles; the environmentalist actress was later removed from the tree and arrested. According to the TreeHugger blogger, the protest was fruitless and the community garden/farm was razed. Snarky bloggers chime in on the brou-ha-ha.

Katrina redux
And just in time for the 2006 hurricane season, Katrina makes a return visit, although not yet in the form of high winds and crashing waves. This time it's in the form of billions of un-accounted for funds from FEMA for Katrina relief, such as that in the form of today's No. 2 most-used phrase: "dom perignon champagne and other alcoholic beverages." That's what some of anestimated $1.4 billion was spent on by FEMA, as well as porn, Caribbean vacations and sex change operations. Agency spokesperson Aaron Walker is today's burstiest person for having to justify the report about the bogus expenditures. And how sad it is when one blogger's "ooooh, big surprise" headline commentary seems to be more like par for the course rather than a sarcastic reference to an extraordinary screw-up? BlogPulse is already picking up buzz for the upcoming hurricane season: