Tsunami Words of Wisdom

Here's an excellent article from the editor of the London Telegraph, Boris Johnson. His best part:

One can see that this is in the spirit of the hysterical precautionary principle that now bedevils our legislation, but it is mad. It may offend our species' sense of self-importance, but when a thunking great hunk of rock comes hurtling out of space, to splat this planet like an egg, it is time to admit gracefully that our number is up.

And here's the always superb Peggy Noonan from the Wall Street Journal. (When I wrote my "No Class..." post, I thought we'd have perhaps just a few sickening examples of people trying to score political points off this unfathomable tragedy. But people never fail to disappoint, and the few have now become the many. But as Noonan says, "Such people are slyly asserting their own, higher sensitivity and getting credit for it, which is odd because what they're actually doing is using dead people to make cheap points.")