Other bad fires

Sometimes I write a post, but I don’t publish it. I guess I’m not a run-to-win blogger.

I’ve had a lot of new visitors lately, looking for news about fires in general, or maybe confusing Griffith Park with San Diego. (And in spite of the fact that I seem to have disappeared from Technorati. Thanks, guys. I don’t understand what a ping is, either.) I feel so bad about so many people losing their homes, and so many many acres of land burned.

One thing I can’t stand is how the news makes such a production, such a drama and such a spectacle of destruction. I turned my head away from all the photos and video footage. Don’t you think this dramatic coverage just might encourage the lowest of the low, arsonists, that fire is a very effective attention-getter? Grrr.

Donna Barstow

Donna Barstow

Syndicated cartoonist in the New Yorker, LA Times, Harvard Business Review, Slate, textbooks, papers. Columnist for 10 years in Psychology Today. Set painter in studio Art Depts. Member Scriptwriters Network, script analyst. Author, 2 hardcopy books, Barnes & Noble Calendar.

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