Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Thank God, They Got the Bastard Responsible
Finally, someone lost his job over the whole tsunami disaster. Suparerk Thantiratonawong, the director general of Thailand's Meteorological Department, was given the boot for failing to issue a warning about the possibility of giant waves. While earthquakes cannot be predicted with any accuracy whatsoever and at least one previous director has stated that earlier tsunami warnings were ignored by government officials anyway, it seems that someone has to take the blame. Could it be that Thantiratonawong is Thai for "scapegoat?"
