05-21-2013, 06:26 PM
Lemon Drop wrote:
I think "natural disaster/crisis politics" are getting kind of old, there's a time and place for the backbiting and this ain't it.
Well said. We all agree when we read stuff like "Oklahoma senators who refused to help New Jersey now have to ask for help". But we read it anyway. And some even snicker about it. The word is:
"Schadenfreude"
(literal translation - joy from regret or sadness )