Larry Kudlow on CNBC accidentally exposed how a lot of money-grubbers (and hey, I'm no Commie myself, y'all) think when he blurted out that we should be "grateful" that the human toll of the Japan quake is much worse than the economic toll.

Kudlow later apologized briefly via Twitter, which for a person with a TV outlet is kind of like breaking up with someone via Skype when you share a studio apartment.