I watch very little, I read less about the world news. I have a couple of freaks at work who follow the non-mainstream, and I have my forums like this one to put things into perspective.

I work for a MULTI MULTI million dollar company with dealings all over the world. If something major occurs, I usually hear about it, and have to re-route entire jobs through our plant to facilitate it.

That said... the local news depresses me, and helps keep me aware... increased gang activity, increased home invasions, increased MDK's. all put me on 'higher' alert. Unfortunately this seems to be a perpetually increasing scale.

And here I thought that a Perpetual motion machine was not possible...