I'm not naming names...
Sometimes, 'shadenfreude' gets out of control: We want the disease to be a plague, a pandemic, for the storm to tear up landscape, homes and lives, for the freeway accident to involve 90 cars, and blood... We want to be the spectators of the biggest, most horrendous, awesome thing anyone could witness... and tell about to those who missed it. We don't want to be in it, we want to watch from a barely safe distance. That's how some politicians these days are reveling in ebola: the bigger the... Sign in to see full entry.