Monday, September 05, 2005

"...We blowed out a cylinder-head."

"Good gracious! anybody hurt?"

"No'm. Killed a nigger."

"Well, it's lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt...."


--Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1885, anticipating disaster relief in George W. Bush's America 120 years later

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