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Ten Eighteen

Rock.

Rope.

Tying.

Throwing.

Bleeding.

Falling.

Grasping.

Clenching.

Hitting.

Bleeding.

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Ten Seventeen

A bomb here.

A hanging there.

Another war, another bother.

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Remote Hemodynamics and Multiple Casualty Assessment

If you could peer into your heart and know its hemodynamic wants and ills — would you like that sort of panopticonic monitoring — or would you prefer to just have your heart beat unwatched until it stops?

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The Real Face of War

This horrific image — a true Urban Semiotic — is making the rounds of the Internets today along with lots of breast-beating and self-immolation over the appropriateness of showing this child killed in a car-bomb explosion in Baquba, Iraq yesterday.  15 people were killed, including seven policemen.  Twenty others were wounded.

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What Must Be Won

We are on a historic precipice of discovery or dismay.  The stakes have never been higher in my lifetime for the preservation of freedom against the epic oppression of the human spirit.  Will we stand and fight?  Or will we allow the good of us to be pushed over the cliff, yet again, by those filled with deception, viciousness and hatred?

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Saluting the Muslim American Solider

Colin Powell appeared on Meet the Press on Sunday and he made an eloquent defense for Barack Obama as president while resoundingly defeating the cruel, and unfounded, attacks by the radical right wing that Obama is as Muslim when he is not; but, Powell argued, what if Obama were a Muslim?  What difference would it make?  What difference should it make?  Then General Powell mentioned an arresting image he saw in the New Yorker showing Elsheba Khan resting her head on the grave of her dead Muslim American son, Specialist Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan. Powell told us Special Khan fought for America and his sacrifice was no less than that of any Christian.

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Generational Wrongs

There are some wrongs that are so terrible and so terrifying — and that wound all of humanity so harshly — that they can never be set right in the lifetimes of those who perpetrated, and received, the cruelty.

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