Whenever I'm starting to feel like everything is just going too damn well in the world (which, admittedly, isn't very often lately) I head over to the San Francisco Crime Blog and catch up on the grisly murder toll in our fair city. I just noticed the blog's got a nifty new map feature pinpointing the all the homicides in San Francisco for 2007 and 2008 -- scroll to the bottom of the page to check it out. It's even color-coded: murders are marked red, double-murders are black and justifiable homicides are blue. And the reds take it by a long shot. Sigh.

-- B.B.