A European Moment

This is so... so... well, so EUROPEAN. A moment of silence, an inert moment, feely but not touchy. I guess it doesn't hurt anything, and if you haven't got any ships or planes or budget to actually DO anything useful, it makes it look like you care. Indeed, I believe they do care. And it is probably no worse than dropping 12 million origami paper birds from airplanes, don't you think?

(Europeans on the left, American on the right).

	From today's New York Times: Europe Honors Tsunami Victims Across Europe, people bowed their heads in silence today to observe a three-minute commemoration of those who perished in the tsunamis. (photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

UPDATE: Varifrank has the opportunity to make the same point in an off-the-cuff conversation.