Agreed, Bluesman. The only thing in common is that they happened about the same time.

I find something a bit pathetic about people who have to establish a league table as to which sad incident is sadder than which other one. The reductio ad absurdum of that is to say that after the Holocaust nothing matters: I have heard it said. But it is an anti-life, negative world view.

Sympathy enough in my heart to feel sorrow and distress for the Norwegian victims and for the lovely but troubled Amy Winehouse. Why should I, or anyone else, try to evaluate these sympathies? Where can I buy the sensitive chemical balance to weigh them up?

~Michael~