Tidbit

I was prepared to be irate with the Talk of the Nation replacement yesterday when she brought up Pat Robertson's statement about the Haiti earthquake being a curse caused by God as punishment for the Haitians making a pact with the devil to drive out the French two hundred years ago and gain their freedom. I listen to them for serious news, not the rantings of crazy folk.

However, I was somewhat mollified when the guest took the time to speak up clearly and call the statement "despicable" and explain the harm caused by such comments to the long term recovery efforts, and the next speaker used the term "irrational".

It wasn't Robertson's first time to label a disaster as punishment from God and a cause to raise money. Katrina and 9/11 got the same treatment. What I'm now waiting for, if this is really how God works, is for something to happen to Robertson, so we can all know it's God's way of telling him, "SHUT UP!"