North Korea is a crisis.
Texas, Florida, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and everywhere else that has been affected by a disaster; these are crises.
AIDS is a crisis.
That's the address for the first page of Google results for the term "AIDS in Africa."
Zika is a crisis.
Thalidomide birth defects, which haven't stopped, are a crisis.
That's the address of an article from 2013 called "Brazil's new generation of Thalidomide babies."
The situation in Venezuela is a crisis.
Terrorism is a crisis.
The absence of gun control is a crisis.
Someone who eavesdrops on a conversation, hoping to exploit a tragedy for political gain, and who then demands apologies for a conflict which she provoked, is not a crisis; she is a nuisance who deserves to be ignored.
I am a Democrat, and I'd appreciate it if Democrats would stop being ridiculous.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, October 23, 2017 @ 8:05 a.m.
