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...wrote down hope and change just in case I forgot...
...biggest proponents of the idea that reality TV appeals to the worst in us is ... reality TV. Case in point, Susan Boyle. When she showed up, unpolished and dowdy, and blew the doors off Britain's Got Talent in her singing audition, it was hailed as a sign that we were finally getting sick of the ugly, snarky culture of reality TV. Did you see her wipe the smirk off Simon Cowell's face? The judges were ready to laugh at her, but she showed them that looks aren't everything! Well, yes, except that Boyle's entire "subversion...
...believe people get tired of helping--only that they get tired of feeling helpless. The challenge arises when we witness what health crusader Paul Farmer calls "stupid deaths": death in childbirth, death by mosquito, death, in the case of Haiti, from infections that spread when crushed limbs aren't amputated fast enough. Help never arrives fast enough because no two disasters are alike and chaos is an agile enemy. So I wondered how we would feel, after texting our $10 donations to the Red Cross and writing checks to Save the Children, still coming home night after night...
...there will be football-related injuries. We should do what we reasonably can to keep players safe, but life is full of risks, and if you live in fear of them or try to mitigate them out of existence, you take the joy out of living--or, in this case, the game...
...medevacs are confined to an area very close to the helicopters, and the troops cannot stray too far from there in case there is a call. There are two teams on duty at once, "first up" and "second up," and if there is a mass casualty, they both have to fly. There is also a team on a chase helicopter, which provides cover for the medevacs in case they are fired on. Members of the first-up team are on for 24 hours and take any call that comes in during that spell. They basically sit around and wait...