I was at New England Yearly Meeting over the weekend. While there, I had my first chance to see the AFSC’s Eyes Wide Open exhibit, or a piece of it. They have a collection of military boots of the soldiers killed in Iraq, in addition to a memorial to the Iraqi civilian casualties. The number of boot ...
Based on some comments I received from the lovely Coffee Bean and Tom, I decided to reprint something I wrote after the tragic Virginia Tech shootings - on my defunct 'political' website, Editorial Bear. You can read the original here... Gun control is fundamentally flawed. Out of the millions of gu ...
Yesterday USA Today's Marilyn Elias wrote an interesting piece about the status of college campuses today with regard to mental illness awareness this first anniversary of the Virginia Tech tragedy. Here are some interesting points of her article: 1....
Back in September I participated in a blogger conference call sponsored by Revolution Health with Dr. Val Jone, Dr. Mark Smaller, and Ross Szabo about depression and mental illness among college students today. To listen to a podcast of the...
A year ago, at the time of the Virginia Tech massacre, I wrote a post about where illness ends and evil begins. The killings raised all kinds of questions for me: theological and philosophical ones along side scientific ones. Here...
I was an opinion columnist for University of Maryland’s student newspaper The Diamondback for three semesters before I graduated. The columns I wrote are still up on the web archive, but I’d rather not depend on The Diamondback to host them indefinitely. Thus, I have decided to repost them on this b ...
Though nothing can make up for the loss of a loved one, the families of the people who were murdered by Cho Seung Hui in the Virginia Tech massacre last year have settled. BBC News is reporting that the families have agreed to a deal with the US state of $11 million. image of memorial site c/o BBC N ...
How to Increase Your Home’s Value Like most people, your home is probably your single largest investment. While the value of your home is largely determined by such things as location, size, con How to Increase Your Home’s Value Like most people, your home is probably your single largest investment. ...
Earlier this week I heard Seth Green on Fresh Air, talking about his new stop-motion sketch comedy show, Robotic Chicken. It debuted last week but I caught a rerun and enjoyed it. The show basically Earlier this week I heard Seth Green on Fresh Air, talking about his new stop-motion sketch comedy sh ...
