You’re going to hear a number in this one-minute PSA – 26 – and you’re probably going to be shocked. Well, after yesterday it isn’t 26. It’s 27.
Is anybody watching?
The release of security camera footage from last week’s Washington Navy Yard shooting makes me wonder: what’s the point of security cameras? They are becoming more and more ubiquitous, and are undoubtedly helpful after the fact in identifying and capturing wanted subjects who have fled and are at large. But is anyone watching them in real time? It would seem …
I HATE MONDAY
Know what I hate today? Actually, every day? Selfishness. Sad to say, this is a trait all of us exhibit from time to time in ways large and small. The trivial and unintended ways people display a me-first attitude can be forgiven and forgotten without a second thought. But what about major acts that display self-interest to the extent that …
I HATE MONDAY: Funerals, Part II
There’s a lot to hate about funerals. That has recently been noted in this very space. It is widely said that death is “natural,” but nothing seems more unnatural than death. Broadly speaking, it is the saddest event humans experience. It’s sadder still that we face it so often until, finally, others experience it when we die. There is something …