Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Rising Tensions Grip Us All



It's Cherry Blossom time in Japan and so also in Japantown. For Jews, it's Passover; for Christians, it's Easter.



The rains have revisited us. Great cumulus buildups all around.

It's spring break and the kids are restless.

Beyond that, the world as we've known it is tense. Americans are tense, very tense. There are signs of trouble everywhere, if you look carefully enough.

*After years of declines in road rage, I'm seeing scary incidents almost every day.

*The Washington Post asks whether the economy is linked to the sudden increase in mass killings in the U.S. In just one month, 57 people were killed in eight mass murders.

* Finally, there is this item: Modern life's pressures may be hastening human evolution.

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