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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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01 February 2001 - 1:06 am
Estimated deaths in the Indian earthquake range from 25,000 to 100,000. As a comparison, the US had 36,516 deaths during the entire Korean conflict (1951 through 1957, when the truce was signed). The most disturbing aspect of all of this is the relative lack of media attention being given to this issue. Is John Ashcroft's battle to be Attorney General really more important than the many, many fatalities on the Indian subcontinent? Perhaps a more interesting question would be, why are Americans so much more interested in the deaths of Israelis and Palestinians than the death of 100 times as many Indians?
We seem to have very strange priorities here in the ol' U. S. of A. I know that Americans are, historically, isolationists, but I thought that ended with the second World War. Apparently, we are only a global community when we find it convenient, for trade purposes I guess, to act like one.
On an unrelated topic, michael claims that he will be posting something tonight. I, for one, am waiting with bated breath. His posting, I'm sure, will be stellar, as he's had more than three days to work on it.
Posted by on 1 February 2001 at 1:06 AM
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