Stupidity of tsunamic proportions.
December 28, 2004, 11:26 p.m.

earlier / later

CNN, FOX(ahem'fake')News, MSNBC, The Daily Show, the BBC, the Gainesville Sun, The Guardian, NPR ... They keep talking about the tidal waves that hit Asia after the earthquake and the fact that there were no warning systems in place.

Now, I'm no expert on world affairs, but in the humdrum daily life of impoverished Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Thailand, Maldives, Malaysia, Burma, Somalia, Sumatra, and Bangladesh I don't think many people were tuned into their televisions or listening to their live radio when the waves hit. They were probably trying to eek out a living selling fruit or ferrying tourists around town so they could provide some food for their family living in the particle-board hut nestled between the sewage run-off drain and the train tracks.

It's like saying, "Hey ... you homeless people could have known it was going to be cold last night and thus not froze to death if you had just checked the weather channel or weather.com before it got dark!"

Friggin NPR. If anyone could realize that not everyone in the world are as privileged as we I would think that NPR's writers and journalists could! But no. We're left with nearly 50,000 dead and NPR (along with the others) is telling us it could have been avoided if all the coastal Sri Lankans had just checked their Sri Lankan 24-Hour Cable news channel sometime within the hour in between the first rumble and the tidal surges.

Damn people are stupid! ~ And this time, even the smart ones.

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