Meanwhile...

While I'm dithering about television programs..

real-life violence, deep tragedy continues to wind its way around the world, as it always does..

44 seminarians kidnapped in Uganda

Fighting continues to rage in the Congo

Two suicide bombings in a week in Chechnya

Terror in Riyadh

Another Texas woman murders her children

Immigrants found dead in a truck in Texas

A commission on religious freedom wonders, once again, why the State Department consistently omits Saudi Arabia from its list of "countries of particular concern" on that score.