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Evacuations in los angeles. parts of the highway shut down after the fire exploded overnight from 250 acres to over 900. right now, more than 500 firefighters are battling against 40-mile-an-hour winds whipping the flames up. fire at this hour remains uncontained. overseas, victory over isis may be within reach this morning outside the major stronghold. iraqi forces are closing in on the last isis controlled compound in ramadi. troops making a major push with the help of us-led air strikes. mili...

memory of anyone thats fallen and obviously there are individual circumstances in which there is genuine, tremendous heroism, hail of gunfire and things like that. but it seems to me that we marshal this word in a way thats problematic. >> though two words, uncomfortable next to hee owes went viral. and i can understand why someone reading those headlines would think at a very minimum, what a jerk. and i heard from a lot of people saying that and worse. many of the responses that i rec...

one basically said my brother died in iraq. who the hell are you to say he wasnt a hero. and uncomfortable, really? well, too bad. and reading those messages, i had to agree. who was i to say who was and wasnt a hero. it hardly seems a designation to confer which is in a very clumsy way what is trying to say, or at least what i wanted to discuss. not who makes a hero, but rather this. we have a society that on the one hand has become confidentble with war and on the other hand, wants t...