Sean Penn: Hero For the Day

It's easy to make fun of Sean Penn. We've done our fair share of it in the past, in fact. But you gotta give Sean credit for being a man of action. It's all too easy to go on Larry King and break down in tears while telling people how great you are for donating a million dollars, and sort of easy to tell an entire live audience that "George Bush Hates Black People" (which we thought was totally awesome), but that's not how Sean rolls.

Instead, the dude saw what was going on with the flood, flew out with a bunch of people (including a photographer), got himself on a boat and rescued a bunch of people. Gave them money even. How can you make fun of that? We can't even make fun of him for not plugging a hole in his boat and having to row the thing for most of the way.

Nicely done, Sean.