I am going on vacation next week, when I typically undergo a complete news fast. It is an annual tradition of mine that is very good for the heart, mind and soul. As if to underscore the point, my pre-vacation week in the office has been a really awful time to be a newshound.

The civil disturbances in Ferguson, Mo., are an ugly reminder of just how much farther we have to go in this country before we can claim to have gotten a handle on our own racial tensions. But that does not hold a candle to some of the real horrors in the world.

Fighting has renewed in Israel and Gaza, after a ceasfire expired and Gaza went ahead and fired rockets into Israel. This, after finally claiming credit for the kidnap and murder of the three Israeli teenagers that kicked off the latest round of warfare.

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