The Difference Between A Disaster And Catastrophe
The old joke in Latin America goes like this. El Presidente visits a school. He asks the class if the children know the difference between a disaster and a catastrophe. A child raises his hand and answers "Yes, El Presidente. If you and your cabinet should be in an air accident, that is a disaster. Should you survive that air accident, that is a catastrophe."
And so that joke sprung to mind when a bullet scraped Donald Trump and did not kill him.
For the assassin to have fired and missed, is the worst of the three outcomes of not having fired at all, and having fired and successfully killed.
RIP Shannen Doherty (12 April 1971 - 13 July 2024)
She wasn't even my type of actress or celebrity. She was memorable because she was on a TV show that defined an epoch. She was a public figure who was neither one thing or another for me, despite her reputation for being troublesome and quarrelsome. It seemed like you needed somebody like that to place a tough Californian chick, so that was par for the course. Even so, she wasn't Brenda Walsh for nuthin'.
The more people like that pass away, the more you feel the passing of time. She is decidedly a very Gen-X figure.
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