Oh and it really pissed me off that I got so upset about this. The recession means that so many people will have their lives irrecoverably plunged into destitution, their kids will suffer, they will suffer, many older people whose superannuation has gone, will live in misery and they might well die in extreme weather, like the poor often do.

It means people in the third world may lose their subsistence wages in their benetton factories, or whatever, and well, anyways the impact of this disaster is so widespread and horrible. But it was this story about dogs that freaking got me sad, and I know it's the same with lots of other people, like when Ari posted about the Koala in a fire. For some reason animals make it easier to see pain.

I don't know why, but it's interesting and infuriating.