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A recent social media post linked to a study, New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage and it got me thinking that there’s a better way to think about these sorts of numbers. My proposal is to use the death count from the hugely divisive and traumatic Vietnam War as a comparison – introducing the Nam:

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This is Peter Stevick’s COA Lobby Movie, said to be Spring Term, 1980. It was filmed in super 8mm and newly transferred to digital (process described below). What’s interesting about this movie is that during the course of filming it, virtually every person who was at COA at the time – students, faculty, staff, walked through the lobby (this was the lobby in the Main Building which was destroyed in the fire). This sequence resonated with people because this is how it was everyday or at very least, how it seemed. In the interest of identifying individuals, I’ve also uploaded…

Here’s a cringe-worthy story on how the family of the woman killed last year in Charlottesville has kept her grave secret to keep it from being desecrated by Neo-Nazis. Forget the minimizing term Neo-Nazis as there ain’t nothing Neo about them. What gets me is that my father fought and helped defeat the Nazis in WWII as a seventeen year old kid from South Boston. His unit built the bridges that Patton’s tanks rolled over. Here’s a commemorative map of their campaign that sits over my desk. And, yet, we, as a society, are tolerating Nazis in our midst? What…