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Month March 2008

News of 120 veteran suicides a week, veterans share war experiences

My friend Sam Husseini shared this news with me, from a CBS News report: So CBS News did an investigation – asking all 50 states for their suicide data, based on death records, for veterans and non-veterans, dating back to 1995. Forty-five states sent what turned out to be a mountain of information. And what [...]

Catching up

It has been hard to write. Many drafts with not just incomplete thoughts, but incomplete sentences, sit neglected in the queue right now. In just this past week, I’ve been paying attention to Eliot Spitzer’s resignation from the office of governor in my home state; the security culture here in Washington as more CCTVs go [...]

Memories of Buckley hint at degraded quality of debate

The only thoughts I can finish these days seem to be belated ones. Here I am slightly expanding on a “tweet” of mine in reaction to the news of arch-conservative William F. Buckley passing away. Mostly fond and polite remembrances were aired across the media. But in an often included common clip, which I heard [...]