Bob Franken: Humanity and Inhumanity

Hurricane Harvey is such a tragic natural disaster that it's been impervious to the vigorous attempts to steal the spotlight by that unnatural disaster Donald Trump. His attempts at provocation -- like the Joe Arpaio pardon and his usual Twitter outrages -- were not enough to deflect our focus. The nation was concentrating instead on the thousands upon thousands of people suffering in the Gulf region, particularly Houston, as the historic deluge drove them from the safety of homes that had been turned into death traps by the rising water.

But the flooding could not sink the heroism of ordinary...