[Roger Slater]

I would have thought I had as much bad taste as anyone, but it seems to me that when a tragedy is in the process of unfolding, with forty people already dead and at least several more dead people to be expected in the coming days, not to mention all the evacuations and property damage, that joking about it can be excused only if you come up with something so very clever that it's easy to see why you could not resist. But this little ditty isn't funny enough to overcome its edgy refusal to take anything but humor from tragedy.