Been watching the news on this tsunami fallout

And the death toll keeps rising every day. 50,000 and counting. Unbelievable. I have friends who were in Sri Lanka a few months ago, and one of their friends has family there, I think. I hope she hasn't had to hear that someone she knows is dead, but it seems almost impossibe with the count that high. They say around a third were children.

It reminds me of that saying "you're more likely to die from a lightning strike than from a terrorist attack," or something like that. Even here I've heard people say "you're more likely to die in a car crash than a terrorist attack." Not just because Israelis are reckless drivers, but because it's kind of a general truth. We focus so much on outlandish deaths, the unusual deaths, and forget that it's the normal things and Mother Nature that'll get most of us.