Good omens for 2005
The perfect combination: Religious teenagers, stupidity, danger, injury, New Year's Eve.
CNN.com finally gives greater headline attention to the actual residents of South Asia. As bad as tourists were hit, they're in a small minority. The more important story is in the thousands whose homes and lives have been wrecked, the people not favored by infrastructure or technology. The focus needs to be on those things, those huge problems that not even the most effective relief efforts can really touch upon.
Linkin Park turns out to be good for something after all (seriously). "We are also going to appeal to our musical peers by asking them to donate as well," says one band member, begging the question whether the really goddamn awful bands of the world actually have as much money as I think people are willing to give them. Strange way to test a cynical theory.
CNN.com finally gives greater headline attention to the actual residents of South Asia. As bad as tourists were hit, they're in a small minority. The more important story is in the thousands whose homes and lives have been wrecked, the people not favored by infrastructure or technology. The focus needs to be on those things, those huge problems that not even the most effective relief efforts can really touch upon.
Linkin Park turns out to be good for something after all (seriously). "We are also going to appeal to our musical peers by asking them to donate as well," says one band member, begging the question whether the really goddamn awful bands of the world actually have as much money as I think people are willing to give them. Strange way to test a cynical theory.
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