There’s global violence every day, of course, but today’s news appears to be more gruesome than usual.

• Four Israelis, including pregnant woman, gunned-down by Palestinian
• 21 American soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan in the past 48 hours
• Eight killed in Cancun bar firebombing
• Man slits his own throat in courtroom after sentencing
• Fire bombs thrown at Russian embassy in Minsk

And none of this mentions the Category Four hurricane bearing-down on the eastern seaboard.