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Not Losing
Is Winning
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Myth
And Fatherhood
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First Principles
When you learn to scuba dive, one of the first drills is this: your instructor knocks the regulator out of your mouth.
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Friction
I did almost all of my Christmas shopping this year through Instagram ads.
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Don't Lose Sight
That there is truth and good, and you must live it
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Choices
There is something uniquely cruel about dying in a place built for becoming.
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Flaubert's Parrot
In America
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Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition
I don’t usually write fundraising posts and have always hated, hated, asking for money for the organizations I have founded and supported.
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All Politics Is Local
I work in the emergency department at the University of Vermont Medical Center, and the other day, when I was on shift, our saintlike social worker told me “I’ve been here since 1997, and this is the ...
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Let's Get Real For a Moment
Doctors are trained to think in probabilities.
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Thoughts on Navy SEALs
There’s this thing I remember from around the time I had just “gotten my bird”, the colloquial term we used in the SEAL Teams to describe being “warfare qualified,” aka a SEAL, aka a lifetime pass to ...
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Little Boy Is Big Tough Man
There’s a mistake boys make, especially boys who were never truly tested, that Pete Hegseth epitomizes: the belief that toughness is the same thing as cruelty.
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I cannot stand this Peyton and Eli MNF thing
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Legacies
I’ve seen this movie before.
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It's 5:45 on Thanksgiving and I'm a large Old Fashioned, a 5 mg edible, and an IPA deep into pumpkin pie squares with apple crisp up next. What's the earliest acceptable time to go to bed on Thanksgiving?
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Green On Blue
Afghanistan, the war anyway, entered “green-on-blue” into the lexicon.
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Habits
By any measure, I’m not a nostalgic person.
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He Ain't Shit
There’s a moment in the history of real courage—actual, physical and moral courage fused so tightly they become indistinguishable—that deserves to be held up every time Americans start to doubt the po...
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Trump took the bait in a hilariously death-threat kind of way, huh?
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So ummmm, another word for this is "dying."
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Some of the most interesting movies are where the main character is an FBI informant the whole time huh?
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I’ve been around fucked up things enough in my life to know the first reports are always wrong but it kind of seems like some AI genius should do a Chris Hansen meets Trump in the kitchen session. Just sayin.
about 2 months ago
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For Veterans Day
When I look back on my Navy SEAL younger self—18, 23, 28, deployed halfway around the world —I see a version of me who volunteered for something I didn’t actually understand, but believed in fully.
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You Win Some, You Lose Some
Dick Cheney’s life is a reminder that the story of a public figure is rarely clean.
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The Adults Have Arrived
If Virginia and New Jersey voters make the choices the polling suggests, Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill will soon become governors.
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Concentrate
It's not over
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The East Wing
Trump can put in a WaWa for all I care
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On God And Country
I fully admit I wasn’t much of a SEAL.
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Getting Beat Up In A Mostly Empty Arena Is Just A Job -
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Getting Beat Up In A Mostly Empty Arena Is Just A Job | Defector
The first sign that fight night in Brooklyn on Saturday might not be a big success was the disparity between the line at the front entrance, which was nonexistent, and the line at the side door where ...
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Secretary of Cringe
A friend sent me the above picture recently, and I replied immediately: cringe.
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On Racists
And Vermont
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Necessary Progress
Has Led To Fatal Arrogance
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Just signed up for No Kings this weekend.
3 months ago
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The reason people like MTG have falling outs with Trump is they believe in things. Might be wrong about em, but Trump believes in nothing.
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Clicks, clicks, clicks
I’m a Naval Academy graduate, an Emergency Room doctor, a Harvard Medical School grad, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, a competitive boxer, a father, a husband, a foster parent, a refugee charity fo...
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Thou canst ride that...
In the final scene of my favorite work of fiction, the protagonist Robert Jordan lies on a Spanish hillside with a snapped femur, fascist troops are in pursuit, and the band of guerillas he has led in...
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"Something For Pain"
I worked a shift last night.
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Don't Come For EMTALA
You might not like where that leads
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Some thoughts
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Dude...
It's a crisatunity
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There are no groups of people with more finely calibrated bullshit detectors than soldiers.
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I Will Sleep Easier
After that clownshow
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On Liberalism and Men
A while back, I listened to an Ezra Klein podcast.
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Everyone Take A Chill Pill
Enough Generals Are Enough Good
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Everyone Take A Chill Pill
Enough Generals Are Enough Good
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We Have To Ask Young Men For Something
Or they will give us something else
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3 months ago
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Tylenol
I guess we're doing this or whatever
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3 months ago
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Kimmel getting his show back is neither a tactical nor a strategic victory for us and if you think it is I truly don't think you understand the game we're playing against MAGA.
3 months ago
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The problem with people not understanding science is that pregnancy IS linked to autism. If you don’t understand science.
3 months ago
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Tonight’s a great night to keep your thoughts to yourselves you know. You don’t have to say anything.
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The Best Thing To Happen To Democrats
Since Richard Nixon's Flop Sweat
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Enjoy a laugh.
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best of craigslist: **UPDATE** FOUND CAT - NEED OWNERS ASAP!!
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