An Oversupply of Bad News

I know what's printed as news can be expected to be bad because the world is supposed to be going on more or less okay and that kind of stuff doesn't need to be reported. But reading the paper tonight it hit me that really things are just AWFUL. Deaths from Katrina (which occurred 3 1/2 months ago) are at 1,323 and bodies are still being found and nothing is being done about rebuilding or anything, even though Bush promised to restore New Orleans to its former grandeur, with the result that nobody can take a chance on restoring a business or a home because nobody has any assurances that anyone else will.... It's the same story in Iraq: a promise to rebuild and then - - - nothing.... Forty-three percent of the homeless in the Denver area are women and children. Nobody notices.... The Chinese government opened fire on villagers protesting land seizures, the biggest killing since Tiananmen....Senate Majority Leader Frist says he is prepared to strip Democrats of their ability to filibuster if they try to stall Judge Alito's Supreme Court nomination.... Pilots are accepting wage cuts to try to keep Delta Airlines from bankruptcy. ... Female inmates are soaring in Colorado; a third of them are in prison for drugs.... There are limited supplies of antitoxin for bird flu.
I guess that's enough.