Stephen Lopez
Look! Derek is featured as one of the “13 Best Tweets About the East Coast Earthquake” at Time.com!
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Yet another east coast earthquake that I didn’t feel at all because I was standing on a giant concrete slab.
Stupid schools.
This video from CNN of the tsunami rolling across Japan is difficult to comprehend.
I’m not gonna lie: I’m gonna freak the hell out if there actually is an earthquake today.
Human Sacrifice
“A book by investigative journalist Patrick Tierney documents a possible modern ritual human sacrifice during the devastating earthquake and tsunami of 1960 by a machi of the Mapuche in the Lago Budi community.
“The victim, 5 year old José Luis Painecur, had his arms and legs removed by Juan Pañán and Juan José Painecur (the victim’s grandfather), and was stuck into the sand of the beach like a stake. The waters of the Pacific Ocean then carried the body out to sea. The sacrifice was rumored to be at the behest of local machi, Juana Namuncurá Añen.
“The 2 men were charged with the crime and confessed, but later recanted. They were released after 2 years. A judge ruled that those involved had “acted without free will, driven by an irresistible natural force of ancestral tradition”
-1960 Chilean tsunami
(via Haiti 48 hours later - The Big Picture - Boston.com)
I understand that all this snow sucks for most people and that lots of bad things are happening, but please don’t lose your sense of perspective.
We’ve got it good. Great, really.
The New York Times has created a page on which you can drag around the aerial view of Port-Au-Prince to see side-by-side images from before and after the quake. Landmarks are highlighted.
It’s astounding and overwhelming.
See it here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/01/14/world/20100114-haiti-imagery.html
It’s well worth a look.
And less than 60 hours later… the deaths of tens of thousands of people is old news on Twitter - replaced with more of the senseless bullshit that’s going to drive our species further into the whirlpool that’s sucking us into extinction.
