A facebook post from a dear friend says, "Everything is actually still getting better, so don't believe the "hype". :)" To which is linked an article from the Huffington Post, World Becoming Less Violent: Despite Global Conflict, Statistics Show Violence In Steady Decline. I bit. I could...

I logged into Twitter four days ago to try to catch up with what is happening in Haiti around the election. Instead, i got distracted by the AH1N1 trend. The Health Minister of Venezuela stated that there have been 179 confirmed cases, with another 200 suspected...