This is the world we live in

This past Thursday I was scheduled to go to Washington DC for a meeting. I was planning to take the Delta Shuttle since it's the fastest way to get down there. On Wednesday afternoon I decided to check the weather report, and saw they were predicting storms for Thursday afternoon. Since both LaGuardia and Reagan National have a tendency to delay flights even at the mere mention of bad weather, I thought I'd play it safe and switch my travel plans to take the Acela instead of the shuttle. When I woke up Thursday morning and turned on the news, I was very glad I made that decision. Is it just me or is the world becoming more crazy on a day to day basis. It seems like over the past five years things have been spiraling out of control, from 9/11 to Madrid, Bali and London. Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, North Korea and now Israel-Lebanon. Kind of makes me long for the good old days of the Cold War. Now I wasn't alive during the 60s at the height of the fears of nuclear war, but by the 80s, things had pretty much settled down into a pretty stable pattern. Now I don't know, but it seems like everything's going to hell. On a personal note, I fly pretty often for work, so I definitely took notice of this latest threat. What's strange is I'm less concerned about the possibility of being on a plane that's attacked (although that's definitely in the back of my mind), but more about the increased hassle of flying. In response to the threat, they've prohibited liquids on planes and have instituted secondary security checks at the departure gate. There have been bombs in suitcases, bombs in shoes, and now liquid bombs. Where does it end?