Iranian Earthquake

I didn't blog any about yesterday's earthquake in Iran, partly due to computer problems, and partly because I didn't have anything to say. Matthew Yglesias did, however:

"Natural catastrophes are, I think, always particularly awful because the seem so devoid of meaning. The tectonic plates don't hate freedom, they're not just after the oil, they're not neo-imperialists they're just -- plates -- shifting around. 18th century people found the Lisbon earthquake very disturbing to both theistic and naive enlightement worldviews and, I think, rightly so."