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Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Godly

Posted by on August 31 at 11:20 AM

The cover of today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer describes, in big and bold letters, the catastrophe in New Orleans as “Ungodly.” But where else but the bible do we have natural disasters of that scale? What the headline should say instead is: “Biblical,” or “Straight Out Of The Bible,” or “Goddamn!,” or “Jesus Fucking Christ!”