The face of despair

Rampage shootings in Alabama and a German school.  As a friend pithily noted that other day, "2009 just, well . . . sucks, doesn't it?"  Yesterday seems to have been the distilled essence of 2009.

Update:  On the other hand, every cloud has a silver lining.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/03/the-face-of-despair/4805/