Last Blog for 540

The timing of certain events in this world and this program never cease to amaze me. Doing the Google Trends assignment over the past couple days in the wake of the 8.9 Richter Scale reading earthquake was very ironic, yet enlightening. With the quake producing tsunamis that reached Hawaii and the western coast of the contiguous U. S. and watching the changes to the searches and their locations in Google Trends was fascinating to watch. Now, with the possibility of core meltdowns in the reactors of the nuclear power plants there are related searches going on that are flooding the search engines. I've also seen the Japanese Nikkei Index and yen being hot topics in searches. God help us!

I find it very sad, this being selection Sunday for the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament, that something so relatively trivial as college sports will begin to eclipse the hardships, the poor residents affected in Japan are dealing with, in the minds of our citizens so quickly.