Ignorance is Bliss

I spend the last (almost) fortnight trying to avoid newspapers, CNN, BBC, etc.

Now I'm back and inundated with executions in China, ethical questions about mental illness, how (much more) miserable it's going to be fly in the US (and elsewhere), how nobody likes Obama because he didn't live up the the hype (come on people, does anything?), Iran's going to blow itself up, and ... speaking of things getting blown up, "how long do we have, Ros?"

Oh, and it's cold here and it gets dark very early and stays that way for quite a long time.