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Obama Needs Turkey

The great thrill of watching President Obama rotating in the wilds of the world, is his deftness in convincing other sovereign nations that the USA is, in fact, a reasonable country despite our recent, warring, record in the world.  Evidence of his deference and respect has been demonstrated this week during his visit to Turkey even as local citizens protest his presence.

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Ten Eighteen

Rock.

Rope.

Tying.

Throwing.

Bleeding.

Falling.

Grasping.

Clenching.

Hitting.

Bleeding.

Ten Seventeen

A bomb here.

A hanging there.

Another war, another bother.

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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