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9/11 at 13: Memory, Memorial, Myth
How Do You Feel About Pearl Harbor? At some point 9/11 will likely become an anniversary celebrated each ten years. No matter how compelling the catastrophe, time erodes both the power of it and the...
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Labor: Leave Ray Rice Alone
An Extra-Judicial “Lynching” Ray Rice, former Baltimore Ravens running back is being destroyed by law enforcement, the NFL, Ravens management and reckless media for an unsavory act that has been...
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Techno: Could Be Time
“Hold On–I’ll Google it.” When I retired to the world of part-time work I made a conscious decision to give up the “smart-phone” in favor of simple talk/text. I didn’t want to be a zombie-like...
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It’s OK.
Compassion, American Style Last month a nine-year-old girl shot and killed her Uzi “instructor” at a firing range in White Hills, Arizona. The weapon was on full automatic and the recoil caused her to...
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New Leaders: JFK’s Nightmare
When Doing Nothing Is Doing Something Being chosen as a leader is an experience both heady and gratifying. You are being recognized for what you know and what you will do. But, one of the most...
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Murder, Social Media and Moral Culpability
“This Was Not A Surprise.” Eric Matthew Frein is the chief suspect in the assassination of Pennsylvania state trooper Byron Dickson last Friday night. The shooter ambushed the Blooming Grove Barracks...
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Cops: Sock Drawer
The Most Proportional Police In America Ferguson, Missouri continues as a slowly boiling cauldron after the shooting of Michael Brown there on August 9th. Like it or not, it is a contemporary...
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Providence: A HoMo Horror
The Ideology of Queerness? In 2001, Providence, R.I., firefighters drove a rig in a Gay Pride parade. Thirteen years later, that drive is the subject of a R.I. State Supreme Court case. Firefighters...
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Leadership: Trust As Instinct
“Who Can We Trust Now?” 234 years ago this week, George Washington sat down to one of his most perplexing meals at the Robinson house near the strategically critical fort of West Point, New York. The...
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Selfie-Actualize
Boots If you joined the US military in 2001 you could be 1/2 way through a service career and have been on combat related duty the entire time, an extraordinary fact. 13 years of war in Afghanistan and...
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Disease: Like A House On Fire
“We Feared To Fly” Welcome, Ebola, to America. The carrier, a recent Liberian traveler, with a fever, was seen and released from a hospital. Now, he’s back in, listed in critical condition. Confidence...
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Heard
Socialize That My work life used to be meetings, meetings and more meetings. Now, not so much, thankfully. Still, one does not escape entirely from the round table. I was sitting in one the other day...
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Perversion of Courage: Tom Neathway’s Story
British Paratrooper Gravely Injured In 2008, Tom Neathway was a sniper assigned to combat duty in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. He was moving a sandbag, later determined to be booby trapped, when it...
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Film: When “D” Stands for Dog
History as Pop-Up: Imax “D-Day Normandy 1944″ Imax image Winston would be appalled. After all, it was he who said, “Never was so much owed by so many to so few.” His poetic turn of phrase in praise of...
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Nepal: Disaster On A High Pass
Death Toll: 39 and Rising Last weekend’s cyclone inspired blizzard in the Annapurna range of western Nepal caught hundreds of trekkers, sherpas and porters in exposed positions as they traversed a...
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Streets: Nine and a Half D
A Lunchtime Encounter I was on my way to meet a friend for lunch at the Gordon Biersch just around the corner from Ford’s Theater while riding my slightly wacky and very comfortable short wheelbase...
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England’s Fire Brigade on Strike This Weekend
Pensions the Focus Thousands of firefighters are strike on through Monday night in the latest escalation over the Conservative government’s program to “reform” pension benefits for firefighters across...
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Our American Terrorists
Eric Frein Eric Frien, cold warrior Eastern bloc stand-in and accused cop killer was finally apprehended after weeks on the run in northeastern Pennsylvania. It seems agreed that he disliked the...
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Sex, Religion and Power
You’re On Mikvah Camera The religious world, or at least a segment of it, was shaken recently by the news of Washington Rabbi Barry Freundel’s arrest on charges of voyeurism. The Rabbi is alleged to...
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