Looting in Haiti
Last Tuesday was a bad one all around. Not only does my friend get hit while in a marked crosswalk in broad daylight in clear weather at 35 mph by an 81 year old woman driving a Subaru, Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere is devastated my a 7.0 earthquake. Please note, dear readers, that I said devastated and not decimated, as has been widely reported by news bureaus around the world. Here are your words for the day: Devastated means " 1 : to bring to ruin or desolation by violent action and 2 : to reduce to chaos, disorder, or helplessness" (which has certainly happened in Haiti). Whereas decimated means "1 : to select by lot and kill every tenth man of 2 : to exact a tax of 10 percent from 3 a : to reduce drastically especially in number decimated the population> b : to cause great destruction or harm to decimated the city> decimated by recession>." [from the Merriam Webster online dictionary] Now I'll allow meanin...