Yes, yes, I know that getting killed in a landslide is nothing to laugh about, but when several U.S. soldiers are being killed practically every day in Iraq, and tens of thousands are still starving in the aftermath of the tsunami, and even a dozen other people have already died from the storms over the weekend in California, I thought the L.A. times front page headline I saw this afternoon (the caption for this post) was hysterical.
Monday, January 10, 2005
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Funny is not the right word, perhaps, but the inability to reflect AT ALL on the relative magnitude of the disaster, still sending out screaming headlines over one poor soul, is surprising. Each death is 10 microsumatras.
LTG, you're the Russophile so you really should have mentioned this but since you didn't I will....
Didn't Stalin once say something along the lines of, "One death is a tragedy. A million is a statistic."
Sorry, it no longer seems very funny, with more deaths. I wish I hadn't written this post :(
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