Humbling the Whole Foods Crowd: I am a Whole Foods devotee, and this article does remind that some people can't afford to shop at Whole Foods, and it doesn't make them socially irresponsible. I don't agree with all of it, but I'm willing to concede it makes some points.
Things I Missed: There are a couple of older articles I didn't get a chance to read until now, but if you haven't read them, you may want to look at them. This article on the underfunded Veteran's Affairs department is nearly a month old, but something I have discussed with some people quite a bit recently. "The Capitol's Republican majorities have shown no hesitation in signing the president's serial blank-check supplemental budgets for waging the war, yet they repeatedly ignored months of warnings from Democrats that returning veterans were being shortchanged. One Republican who warned of the problem - Representative Christopher Smith of New Jersey - lost his chairmanship of the Veterans Affairs Committee after pressing his plea too boldly before the House leadership." Harpers also has an interesting article on it that I may have mentioned before (you need subscription access, but if you have access to a university database its on ebsco and others). The WP also had an article on the same shortfalls. There is another NYTimes article on the high numbers of officers who plan on resigning as soon as possible. "Yet my classmates were disillusioned with more than being sent to fight an unpopular war. When we became cadets, we were taught that the academy's honor code was what separated West Point from a mere college. This was a little hard to believe at first, because the code seemed so simple; you pledged that you would not lie, cheat or steal, and that you would not tolerate those who did. We were taught that in combat, lies could kill...The mistake the Army made then is the same mistake it is making now: how can you educate a group of handpicked students at one of the best universities in the world and then treat them as if they are too stupid to know when they have been told a lie?"
Things I Missed: There are a couple of older articles I didn't get a chance to read until now, but if you haven't read them, you may want to look at them. This article on the underfunded Veteran's Affairs department is nearly a month old, but something I have discussed with some people quite a bit recently. "The Capitol's Republican majorities have shown no hesitation in signing the president's serial blank-check supplemental budgets for waging the war, yet they repeatedly ignored months of warnings from Democrats that returning veterans were being shortchanged. One Republican who warned of the problem - Representative Christopher Smith of New Jersey - lost his chairmanship of the Veterans Affairs Committee after pressing his plea too boldly before the House leadership." Harpers also has an interesting article on it that I may have mentioned before (you need subscription access, but if you have access to a university database its on ebsco and others). The WP also had an article on the same shortfalls. There is another NYTimes article on the high numbers of officers who plan on resigning as soon as possible. "Yet my classmates were disillusioned with more than being sent to fight an unpopular war. When we became cadets, we were taught that the academy's honor code was what separated West Point from a mere college. This was a little hard to believe at first, because the code seemed so simple; you pledged that you would not lie, cheat or steal, and that you would not tolerate those who did. We were taught that in combat, lies could kill...The mistake the Army made then is the same mistake it is making now: how can you educate a group of handpicked students at one of the best universities in the world and then treat them as if they are too stupid to know when they have been told a lie?"
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