Worst Day of the Year?
The newspapers are saying this is the worst day of the year. Check out the Garudian to see the formula for how some professor calculated it so. Balderdash! Things aren’t that bad. You could be that dead whale. Speaking of which…£100K was spent trying to save that whale. While I think it’s important to save whales and stuff, I don’t understand why people don’t get just as upset at the 19,000 children in Africa who die daily from easily curable diseases. Maybe it’s just too big a number to think about daily. Maybe it’s easier to think about one whale…swimming up the Thames…towards the Japanese embassy to protest their whaling policy.
Being the worst day of the year, I had to crack open my copy of The Perpetual Pessimist, and for today’s date, we have:
“God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, sometimes a hero for the chastisement of mankind; none of them, surely, for our admiration”
- Walter Savage Landor
Hmmm. Someone wittier could say something here.
I agree with you. Although my personal take on it referred to the homeless of London who get less attention than the whale.