Has a Higher Power Entered the War Against the Poor?

We all know (thanks to Cecil B. de Mille, if not the book of Exodus) about what happened when God got angry at Pharaoh for enslaving the Children of Israel: He brought a series of ten plagues upon the land of Egypt. In is in the spirit of such punitive measures that we should read this Reuters dispatch about Serendipity 3:

Serendipity 3 on the Upper East Side failed its second consecutive health inspection in a month on Wednesday night after health officials found a live mouse, mouse droppings in multiple places, flies and dozens of live cockroaches, the Heath Department said.

For those who have forgotten (already?) about Serendipity 3, it became the latest "front line" in the War Against the Poor by offering a $25,000 chocolate sundae. Perhaps there really is a God, who not only really does love the poor but has decided to embellish the strategy applied to the Egypt of the Pharaohs with a bit more of a sense of humor.