Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Death: You were always a great friend of mine, Warren

A columnist observed on June 19 2010:

"...And the ageing Warren Anderson will eventually die a peaceful death in the Hamptons…. unlike the over twenty thousand Indians who weren’t as lucky when they gasped their last breaths in distant Bhopal twenty six years ago..."

I am not sure of that.

How little we know what happens while one is dying.

James Thurber: Even a well-ordered life can not lead anybody safely around the inevitable doom that waits in the skies...

And we are not even sure if Mr. Anderson's life is 'well-ordered'.

About justice and fair play...


Brad DeLong
- “Call those political leaders whose followers and supporters have slaughtered more than ten million of their fellow humans "members of the Ten-Million Club.”… The twentieth century has seen perhaps five people join the Ten Million Club: Adolf Hitler, Chiang Kaishek, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong. Hitler, Stalin, and Mao have credentials that may well make them the charter members of the Thirty Million Club as well–perhaps the Fifty Million Club."

What kind of death these gentlemen got?



Artist: Herbert Block (1909-2001), Washington Post