First and foremost, I want to point out I am not making light of Hurricane Sandy or the East Coast tragedy. While it was images from this event that brought these thoughts to the forefront, I see these types of idiots everywhere – whether during a time of tragedy or in the course of everyday life. It's the complete lack of common sense and idiocy of some people that gets my blood boiling every single time.
As Sandy made landfall Monday night, one of my personal heroes, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, sent this tweet from his high rise apartment in lower Manhattan: “Darwinian Natural Selection poised to cull the herd: All those drawn to shorelines seeking a close-up view of Hurricane Sandy.”