May 6, 2008 9:08 AM

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness." - George Bernard Shaw

Talking of which - details have started to trickle out this week on Jenna Bush's "low-key" wedding at the Bush ranch in Texas. She'll wear an Oscar de la Renta wedding dress and have 14 attendants. The ceremony will take place in front of a specially erected monument (no, not a statue of Karl Rove).

In contrast, yesterday also saw a run-up of a different kind. May 10 is Stamp Out Hunger Day, the nation's largest single-day food drive. America's Second Harvest, one of our 2008 ballot groups, has begun a weeklong photo essay series spotlighting Americans at risk of hunger. The first essay featured Diana:

In the remote regions of New Mexico, people living near the poverty line have limited options for both food and employment. Even with a steady job, Diana still finds it hard to make ends meet in the small town of Cuba, New Mexico. She is often forced to either pay inflated food prices at the local grocery store, or drive nearly 90 miles to Albuquerque for more reasonably-priced food. But with the rising price of gasoline, even that option has become untenable. A single mother raising four children, Dianna is utilizing every resource she can for self-improvement and assistance for her family, from continuing education programs to government resources, to the local food pantry supplied by the Roadrunner Food Bank of New Mexico. She says the money she saves by visiting the pantry each month helps her to make it through the winter months, when high utility costs used to force her to choose between buying food or paying her heating bill. The food pantry gives her the food and support she needs to keep her family well-fed, and the hope to keep striving for a better tomorrow.