April 18, 2008

Kevin Ferris doesn’t understand King 40 years later, let alone Obama in the now

I read a high school drama production-turned-editorial in the Philadelphia Inquirer this morning and stood aghast. Kevin Ferris truly doesn’t get it. He isn’t the story. He is a guy on the sidelines. He’s not a guy on the sidelines with a helmet, ready to go in and win the game [...]

April 18, 2008

A more complete tally in the cost of the war

About 300,000 U.S. troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder or depression, but about half receive no care, an independent study said on Thursday. Reuters 04/17/08
This isn’t a small number. This isn’t a laughable disorder. This isn’t a small issue.
I don’t want to be an alarmist, but [...]

April 18, 2008

You see, there’s two sides to every Schwartz

…but you don’t see.
It’s not good and evil. It’s not even black and white and gray area. There are millions of colors in every spectrum. We tend to fixate on two-sided things. Where they don’t exist, we create two sides and divide ourselves based on a line. A [...]