From the Washington Times (not Post) "Inside the Beltway" column:
"Avian flu. Global warming. Real estate bubble. World oil supply. After all the headlines, are we getting close to mass hysteria over theoretical doom or are we becoming so inured to apocalyptic warnings that we are turning a deaf ear to them? If we keep ringing the alarm bell like Chicken Little did when she turned an acorn into a national crisis, when it comes time for a real
emergency, people may not pay much attention."
-- Raj Dandage, chairman of the Chicago-based American Disaster Preparedness Foundation, as paraphrased by Pam Harbaugh in the publication Florida Today.
(Not that this is relevant to the point made by Dandage/Harbaugh, but wasn't Chicken Little a male chicken? Disney thinks so.)
