It was the week that was...

I'm on a news diet. I just spent the last three days staring at various video feeds running the horrible, horrible news from Japan. I'm not allowed to go to BBC, NHK or the NYT for the rest of the night.

I can go to CNN, though. It's not like they actually show news, anyway.

I am at a loss for words. The people of Honshu are living through every nightmare scenario I could ever imagine, their entire world wiped out in the blink of an eye. My heart goes out to them.

A freaking 9.0. I mean the goddamned earth *moved.* The axis tilted 4 inches, the day slowed down a little for a second, and a freaking TECTONIC PLATE dragged itself over two feet. Watching all the footage, it looked for all the world like I'd dumped out a box of legos and ran a garden hose through it. If I'd seen this in a movie, I'd have slagged the SFX guys for overplaying it.

It's so easy to get caught up in the day-to-day and forget that the space in which we live is so very fragile, that we live on this tiny little strip between ice and fire...

Excuse me, I gotta go hug my kids.