Suicide: A Crime of Loneliness
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 14th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Suicide: A Crime of Loneliness
Andrew Solomon, The New Yorker
Every forty seconds, someone commits suicide. In the United States, it is the tenth most common cause of death in people over ten years of age, far more common than death by homicide or aneurysm or AIDS.
Conservatives Love Uber Because Freedom
James Lileks, National Review
Many people on the right have embraced Uber, the company that lets you call a ride from your smartphone instead of standing on the corner with your hand up looking like a statue of Lenin leading the proletariat to the Future, or maybe to that tapas place downtown. This confuses people who regard conservatives as dumb apes who poke Shiny New Things with a stick and screech in alarm. How can they support Uber?
Obama Is Killing Dem Senate Hopes
Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
Heading into the 2014 campaign, most analysts agreed that control of the U.S. Senate hinged on the survival of a few key red state Democrats and the one vulnerable Republican incumbent: Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. But the latest poll out of Kentucky provides some very bad news for Democrats for which they can blame one person: Barack Obama.
