I’m not normally a big fan of Thomas Sowell (but he’s a value of yours, you might ask…that he’s my favorite editorial columnist and I can say that I’m not a big fan should tell you the barrenness of the field), but his recent column entitled “Two earthquakes” is spot on. When I was listening to an NPR report this morning on rescue operations in Bam, I was thinking exactly what he said in that editorial—“there but for the grace of God” never crossed my mind.