All things being considered, I’d have to say my abilities as a job interviewee aren’t stellar. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got no problem tooting my own horn, answering questions on the fly and being engaging and all that noise…. Read More ›
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Sentiment Over Substance: How Presidential Candidates Talk About Addiction Without Saying Much Of Anything
It happened at the beginning of the New Hampshire Forum on Addiction and the Heroin Epidemic, well before the 5 mid-card presidential candidates who participated in the event showed up to speak. About halfway through the morning portion of the… Read More ›
Brain Surgery Would Have Been Easier: Ben Carson’s Struggles With Foreign Policy
On the morning of September 5th, 1987, a brilliant young neurosurgeon named Ben Carson stood over the motionless, butterflied bodies of the 7-month old Binder boys at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Surrounded by an extensive team comprised of some of the… Read More ›
You Have To Win At Home: How Kentucky’s Governor’s Race Was Decided in The City, Not The Country
While the outcome of Tuesday night’s gubernatorial election in Kentucky was not expected, the reaction from much of the national media and the Democratic faithful has been regrettably predictable. In the wake of Tea Party darling Matt Bevin’s sound thumping… Read More ›
The Coal Ash Cup Runneth Over…Into Appalachia’s Water Supply
This past Sunday, as the nation was sitting down to watch the Super Bowl and all of its attendant pomp and circumstance, a massive environmental disaster was taking place near Eden, NC, a small town that sits on the banks… Read More ›
Sneak Peek of My New Book: Bread From the Sweat of Other Men’s Faces
Well, I suppose it’s been about 5 or 6 months since I last posted here on Virally Suppressed and began writing what I hoped would become a honest-to-goodness book about my 39-day trip up, down and across America. That book… Read More ›
Days 36, 37 & 38: Norman Rockwell & The Past That Never Was
On my very last leg of my journey, the Patron Saint of Literary Symbolism (I think his name is St. Harold) placed in my lap one final museum that encapsulates most everything vital and unfounded in the America we’ve been… Read More ›
Day 14: Mormons…Wow
Just read the pictures…
I’ll Get Angry Tomorrow
In the White House press briefing room this afternoon, a mutedly distraught President Obama addressed the nation in the wake of the unfathomable tragedy that was taking place in the town of Newtown, Connecticut. From behind his dais, the President… Read More ›
A Tragedy on a Loop in Colorado
It’s about a half hour drive from Columbine High School to the Century 16 Theater in Aurora. 20 miles through the tarmac arteries of America from one Denver suburb to another. There’s absolutely nothing spectacular or remarkable about Aurora, much… Read More ›
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