Is it too soon to joke about a disaster that hasn’t happened? The New York Times thinks so

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By Katie HerzogJul 21, 2015, 3:19 pm35 pts
This week, I learned it can be too soon to make fun of a tragedy that hasn’t even happened yet. On Sunday, “The good news about the earthquake that will destroy the Northwest,” my darkly optimistic take on Kathryn Schulz’s New Yorker story about an earthquake predicted to decimate my home of Seattle,…

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