Fascinating story about screening the movie "Miral" at the UN. Really looking forward to this movie...

Wednesday morning (3.16.2011) the mobile version of the Los Angeles Times revealed these four headlines:
Japan increases efforts to cool damaged nuclear plants
Emperor Akihito's speech underlines gravity of Japan's nuclear crisis
Police, soldiers rout protestors in Bahrain
CIA contractor Raymond Davis freed in Pakistan killings [turns out someone, sounds like the US, just paid 2 million in "blood money" for this "freeing" -- um, don't we have a budget crisis right now?? SERIOUSLY!]
Rapper Nate Dogg dead at 41

There is an entire dissertation to be written about our society at large with just these headlines. Though I might also mention that the end of days people are really having a field day/week/month right now. I am told that here in the bay area, the enders have a billboard up ... says May 21st is the day we will all be going back to Jesus. I mean when only the good people will be going... A friend commented that it was just rude to make the end of the world after tax day. I had to agree, though knowing as we do, thanks to the billboard, we can all file extensions that we know will never be paid. And someone else suggested we ought to just crank up Prince and party like it's 1999 -- however badly planned that last end of days turned out.