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"The invasion of Iraq squandered the national unity following the attacks of 9/11..The cost fell on the bodies of young men and women from small towns and inner cities. Meeting anyone in uniform from a family of educated professionals was vanishingly rare"

I demur with the conclusion.

I remember when @CaitlinPacific told me. I was standing in the living room talking to her on the phone. She was upbeat and wanted no sympathy. I remember saying “I’m in no position to offer you that because we are all born dying, just at different rates.”

Everyone with a brain is rightly dragging this piece. It's obtusely stupid about the technology, as well as morally misguided.

To think there's some fraction of our legacy gerontocracy that agrees with it makes a seasteader out of me.

Choice quotes from Shaun FitzPatrick, Major USMC.
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By the way toughest interviews I ever did were on NPR, not because of harsh treatment or anything like that, but because the radio reporter asks you to describe in detail for listeners who can't see what you're talking about. It's tougher than I thought it would be.
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and Sales people and buyers:
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Clients are uncomfortable with the quiet and want to fill the air. We always said, "Whoever talks first loses" but it isn't quite as simple as that. People will tell you things (if you just shut up!) when given the chance. Silence is the best way to handle it.

The original article on the Broken windows theory. circa 1982

diamonds are over prices, over hyped and utterly useless. Here is why.