Chicken Teriyaki Bowl #7

It is the good fortune of many to live distant from the scene of sorrow; the evil is not sufficiently brought to their doors to make them feel the precariousness with which all American property is possessed. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense

This passage, read recently, brought to mind a collage of images: earthquakes in China, typhoons in Burma, flooding in the American midwest, and the American lack of fiscal responsibility which we call the mortgage ‘crisis’.

That last item seems incongruous, doesn’t it?  You wouldn’t know it by the media.