suicides

Originally Published in the Columbia Daily Herald, Reprinted by permission

Mark Warner on Barack Obama in Bristol, "seven years ago y'all didn't know me too well, and I asked you to take a chance, and you took that chance and we moved Virginia forward. Now I'm asking you to take the time to listen to Barack Obama and give him a chance."*

*rough quote

Update:

"It is completely outrageous that the federal agency charged with helping veterans would instead cover up the hard truth -- that more and more Americans coming home after bravely fighting for their country are suffering from mental illnesses and in the most tragic circumstances, committing suicide.

The gun banners say guns kill 30,000 per year. We know that over half those are suicides so we pro-gunners point that out. Those numbers, IIRC, come from the CDC. However, the Justice Department has different numbers that puts gun homicdes at about 12,000.

That Olivia St. John's advice to bureaucrats who want to stick their nose in homeschool families. The article begins by recounting the murder of four children who were pulled out of Washington, D.C. public schools by their mother and were later murdered. Bureaucrats are using the quadruple murder as an excuse to more closely monitor the activities of homeschool families. However, St. John quickly dispatches the suggestio

First: I love Sofia Coppola.

I had long avoided this movie, because of my well-publicized inability to watch hard movies about children. While this movie -- not a spoiler -- obviously revolves around the suicides of five sisters, its focus is much more on the effects their lives had on a group of boys their age. And on the feeling of the age.

Also, this: Kirsten Dunst, she's amazing.

First: I love Sofia Coppola.

I had long avoided this movie, because of my well-publicized inability to watch hard movies about children. While this movie -- not a spoiler -- obviously revolves around the suicides of five sisters, its focus is much more on the effects their lives had on a group of boys their age. And on the feeling of the age.

Also, this: Kirsten Dunst, she's amazing.