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It's Memorial Day ceremonies, 8 a.m. in Palm Coast, 10 a.m. in Bunnell (Flagler County), 3 p.m. in Flagler Beach, thoughts on war.

Speaking as another son of a Tennessee industry lawyer—a country music lawyer; it was TVA power that helped turn Nashville into a radio and recording mecca—I think the prime darkness at the heart of Cormac McCarthy’s fiction, always precariously perched over oblivion, began with his father, a fixer behind the laboratory that powered the possibility of human extinction.

A look back on the stories that shaped the past 10 years, and helped inform the fight for a more radical and equitable future.

Article: Tomgram: Nick Turse, Sorry, But Not Sorry in Somalia - In war, people die for absurd reasons or often no reason at all. They die due to accidents of birth, the misfortune of being born in the wrong place -- Cambodia or Gaza, Afghanistan or Ukraine -- at the wrong time. They die due to happenstance, choosing to shelter indoors when they should have taken cover outside or because they ventured out into a hell-storm of destruction when they should have stayed put[...]

( Tomdispatch.com ) -- Honestly, what strange creatures we are. Nothing stops us when it comes to destruction, does it? …