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Yes, arson-for-profit plagues the hazard-insurance business, but we still need insurance.
While local newspaper coverage has generally been self-pitying, the comfortably faraway New York Times responded with Schadenfreude , likening the Northwest's woes to biblical plagues ("We finally got our natural disaster, as if it were coming to us," conceded a Seattle coffee server) and reporting that "some Northwesterners" confess to a "sheltered, even slightly wimpy quality in their approach to the extremes of nature."
By shifting attitudes and teaching youth to understand each other, we halt the violence that plagues our schools and neighborhoods.
Legend has it that if he's ever revived, he'll visit the 10 plagues of Egypt upon the world.
Once he does, perhaps the two parties can abandon this imaginary controversy and tackle the scourge that actually plagues Washington--not child sexual abuse, but child sexual abuse abuse.