Blood Is A Powerful Thing

But Better To Get Hurt By The Truth Than Comforted With A Lie.

The Ordinary, Utterly Mundane Reason Behind The Massacre Makes It Somehow More Terrible, And Far More Depressing. The Word 'senseless' Springs To Mind, And Idris Thwarts It. It's What People Always Say. A Senseless Act Of Violence. A Senseless Murder. As If You Could Commit Sensible Murder.

At Least, It Is Encouraging To Me That President [barack] Obama Has Put Afghanistan Front And Center In This Broader So-called War On Terror, And That He Is Taking A Different Approach To Afghanistan.

I Think He Loved Us Equally, But Differently.

[flying Kite With My Friends] Is One Of The Seminal Memories Of Growing Up For Me.