Hutton Report

The Hutton Report on the death of Dr. David Kelly came out a few days back in England, but I haven’t the stamina to read the entire thing. Following is a summary of the report, from the BBC. Its link is here.

Grief

Grief is starting to manifest itself in my life as a tendency to self-destructive behavior. I was not self-destructive when Dad died. With Mom dying, though, the grief is so different. Subterranean. Desires to escape — the vodka, the imaginary mudding worlds. And it’s so hard to be in this world, literally: the deep snow Continue reading Grief

qotd

from Thinking Meat: Ultimately, though, the [Rachel] Corries don’t matter. The daughter is dead, and I don’t care. The parents are cretins, and I care even less. What’s important is to deflate the cult of personality that some on the Left have tried to build around Corrie — to make her into a heroic principled Continue reading qotd