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Is Donald Trump Responsible for Violence? Yes. |
Complicit in killing? Absolutely. |
President Trump speaks to sailors aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier in Newport News, Va., on March 2. (Photo: Jim Lo Scalzo/European Pressphoto Agency) |
Is Donald Trump responsible for unhinged violence against innocent people? Absolutely. You only have to look at Yemen to see that. |
Since pipe bombs started targeting prominent critics of the president, people have been debating not the sending of bombs so much as the casting of aspersions. All Americans are against bombing and political violence, this argument assumes, but is it right to question the complicity of the Commander in Chief? |
Let’s pause right there for a moment. There’s no American consensus against terrorism and political violence. Since 1954, the US military has intervened fifty-six times in Central America to depose leaders we disapproved of and back ones who’d do what we want. For half a century, American men, money and munitions flood... |
So let’s be clear: the American record on terror is bipartisan. Both parties have backed it, and there’s no high and mighty consensus against it. |
As for pointing fingers, former NYC police commissioner Bernard Kerik walked off a CNN set in huff this week because the network, which had received one of the mail bombs, was politicizing its coverage. As one who’d lived through the attacks of 9-11, Kerik said he found it appalling that anyone would stoke division in ... |
The former commissioner’s words are one thing. His actions, after 9-11, were to approve the mass round-up of Muslim Americans and police profiling of entire neighborhoods on suspicion, but no one on CNN saw fit to remind viewers of that. |
Finally, Trump. Complicit in killing? Absolutely. This president’s closer to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates than any other, and he’s stayed that way, not only since the demonstration assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but over almost four years of a Saudi air war that’s created what the UN calls th... |
As for fear, this very week, as people in the US were panicking about shoddily-made pipe bombs, President Trump was threatening to rip up the 1987 nuclear non-proliferation treaty, the first and most significant one that ever worked. So, is President Trump responsible for proliferating fear and threats and violence? Ab... |
And is it right to politicize all this? Absolutely. Vote. |
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Developers and operations engineers are increasingly utilizing ChatOps to manipulate their environments and help users self-manage the servers and databases they require for their work. There’s a few different chat systems and bot platforms available, but the most common used today is Slack. By setting up the SlackBo... |
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Many people know at least one person whose health has been affected by tobacco and most tobacco users would quit if they could but it is also one of the most addictive substances known to man. So it is the perfect business. Inconsistencies in public policy are expected but they should not be expected when it comes to p... |
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In New Orleans, we love to drink alcohol. So with the holiday season rapidly approaching, it would be a real travesty if I didn’t address drunk driving. Here’s a sobering thought: someone is killed in an alcohol-related motor vehicle accident every 53 minutes on average. One in three of those accidents occur with someo... |
Drinking and driving can change your life forever, but most people don’t know what alcohol really does to you. Drinking and driving is clearly dangerous, but it’s important to understand how alcohol impairs your ability to drive properly. Alcohol is a depressant that slows your eye muscles. That makes it difficult to t... |
Alcohol also slows your reaction time. If you saw a person in the middle of the road, for example, it would take you longer to hit the brakes or swerve to avoid them than if you weren’t under the influence. It also impairs your coordination so that actually getting your foot to hit the brake is harder than it normally ... |
These are just a few of the many reasons why you should not drink and drive. While you might agree with me in theory, many people will also say they should be fine if they’ve only had a drink or two. But you might be surprised how quickly you actually hit your blood alcohol limit. A 120-pound woman will have a blood al... |
If you’ve driven after a few drinks, chances are good you’ve driven above the legal limit. Do your favorite doc a favor this holiday season, call a cab or hand over your keys to a truly sober friend. It could save your life and the lives of many others. |
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Lost in translation: Neve and the pigeons |
It is 6.45 a.m. Neve and I are watching Teletubbies together. A long, tedious segment about a boy feeding some pigeons has just finished (which seemed to just go on forever: what is there to say about feeding pigeons? You throw some grain on the floor. That's it. It barely deserves a sentence, much less a short film, b... |
"Where's the business sausage?" |
I gape at her. Recently her random garbling has seemed a lot more like proper English words, but as you can see that doesn't necessarily mean that they actually make any sense. |
"What? Business sausage?" |
She nods firmly. |
"Do you actually mean 'sausage', or am I hearing things?" I ask |
She gestures at the screen (where the Teletubbies insistence on repeating their educational VT segments has seen a major breakthrough: the birds appear to have remembered that they can eat grain by means of putting it their beaks) and continues to frown. |
"Sausage" she says, "Business sausage." |
"Right. I have no idea what you mean. What about this 'business sausage'? |
"We wiped it." |
"What?" I goggle at her incredulously. |
"It kicked. It kicked, so we wiped it" she explains patiently. |
There is a pause, throughout which she stares at me expectantly. |
"I am sorry, but I really have no idea what you are talking about" I say, with a helpless shrug. |
She nods, as if satisfied, and turns her attention back to the TV. |
If anyone has the slightest idea what she may have meant, then please let me know. |
Pride comes before a fall: Amelie and Mario Kart |
I am playing Mario Kart on the Nintendo with Amelie. Actually, that is a slight exaggeration - what is actually happening is that I am playing Mario Kart, and she is sitting next to me holding the (disconnected) plastic steering wheel and pretending to drive. She is also pointing out glaringly obvious things that happe... |
"And they're off! They're really tearing up the road!" she says. |
I laugh out loud at this remark, which encourages her further. |
"You are the coolest driver in the race, Daddy" she shouts. |
I gasp. It is all I can do to not drop the controller and punch the air in triumph. My little girl thinks I am cool! I have been waiting for her to say something like that for, oooh, maybe 4 years 2 months and twenty days (if I had to make a rough guess). |
I complete another half lap, glowing with paternal pride. Then I remember she is only four, and as I think about what she has said the doubt sets in. |
"Amelie, where did you learn to say 'tearing up the road'?" I ask suspiciously |
"On my Hello Kitty DVD. They have a race in that, and the rabbit with the flag says it." |
"Hmm. Do you know what it means?" |
"No. You just say it when you see races." |
"Ah." I say. I fear I know the answer already, but have to ask: "Does he say anything else?" |
"Yes, he tells Kitty that she is the coolest driver in the race." |
"Uh-huh. And do you know what that means?" |
"Right." I say sadly, feeling my previous elation gently dribble away into the carpet. |
There is a pause. |
"You are not winning Daddy, you need to try harder" she says helpfully. |
Feigning it: Nini and Winter vegetables. |
We are lying in bed. Nini is reading an article about Gordon Ramsey, and his recent outburst on the sole use of ingredients that are in season. |
"Bloody Gordon Ramsey" she tuts. "I mean he's got a point, but it isn't him who'll have to feed my kids kale and beetroot all throughout the Winter." |
"Uhuh" I say, which is the vaguely affirmative noise I make when I am not really interested but want to indicate that nonetheless I do appreciate, on some level, the one-sided effort that is being put into the 'conversation'. |
"I can just see me giving Amelie a bowl of turnip when she wants strawberries. 'Sorry love', I'll say, 'Gordon says it's root vegetables only until May...'" |
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