History on the march

World events are moving too quickly for me to keep up with on my blog.  Libya and the brutal civil war between Gaddafi and the rebels / freedom fighters, depending on which news service you listen to - disgracefully - for surely they are all freedom fighters struggling to overthrow a vicious tyrant.  Japan following the earthquake and horrific tsunami whose devastation is Biblical in proportion.  How many killed?  Ten thousand?  Twenty thousand? And now the nuclear threat from the perhaps fatally damaged power station.  Unrest in Bahrain and the arrival of, er, friendly troops from Saudi Arabia.  The victims of the New Zealand earthquake and the Australian floods now largely forgotten.  The civilian casualties in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan equally so.  Too much is happening too quickly.  Truly it seems as if history is on the (quick) march.