Not That Good a Morning

I would like to think that's because a) I've been following the news about Haiti and b) I've been re-reading The Best Science Writing of 2003, which had some of the saddest articles about forthcoming ecological disasters, two of which had previously managed to slip my mind, but in fact it's  Other Things, more personal, so that I get to feel guilty for even thinking about personal other things when there's a major disaster going on.

Of course, when isn't there a major disaster going on, and t...