A Violent Weekend All Over

After a quiet day trip to the Shenandoah Valley today, some of it spent in the nearly sealed off Fort Valley of the Massanutten range where Verizon's famous red map apparently does not reach and my phone was unable to get either a signal or the Internet, I return to learn that:

• The strikes on Libya are well under way (no link here, as it's everywhere);

• 50 mortar rounds were fired into southern Israel from Gaza today, and Israel is promising retaliation;

• Yemeni forces fired live ammunition against protesters in Aden, a day after more than 40 people were killed in Sanaa;

• The total dead in the Syrian border town of Deraa yesterday is now five, and at the funeral for two of them there were renewed protests;

• And Mohamed ElBaradei was attacked while trying to vote in the Egyptian referendum.
  

Well, it started as a relaxing weekend. I guess I should have stayed off the grid.