Hurricanes, economics and war

Just got back to Paris from Berlin where I was dumbfounded to find that BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, German radio, and the American papers (online) could speak of nothing but the weather! Weather talk continues in Paris. And today a friend wrote from California to reassure me that her friend’s family in Texas and Louisiana are alright. Sure it’s hurricane season in America, but it seems that the entire western world has been hoodwinked by the international department of economic and war development into focusing our attention on the weather (with much of that talk being about 3-year-old weather)—God’s work, some would say—so that we can leave all that messy human stuff to the earthly powers that be.