Raimundo,
Two thoughts:
1) The post to which I am responding now garners you Poetaster of HTP Honors throughout the end of this year and the first three quarters of '02, which makes you, in other words, Poetaster Laureate of the Recession. Congratulations and abrazos de todos.
2) As to the cost of dropping a daisy on certain dusty locations (and the collateral cost of dropping a B-1B into a watery location); surely, notre ami, it pales in comparison to the damage a dozen boxcutters, a little baling wire and 19 worthless lives cost the world (yes, not a typo, the world) on September 11, 2001. Direct costs were, by a rough calculation, somewhere in the 200 Billion Dollar range, although the indirect costs would have to be a multiple of no less than 3 times (using back of the napkin approach, Host Marriott napkins and surprisingly good coffee), once we tot up the airline industry, the resort industry, lost jobs everywhere, the nesting repercussions, the elongated recession, etc.
Yours truly in this season of giving,
Kb |
