Monday Morning Crisis Quarterback

The story unfolded in the local media, posted on my Facebook page this afternoon. A major street was closed due to police activity. Police w...

Just over a month ago, I was blogging, as was pretty much every other blogger out there, about the Penn State child sex abuse scandal . I...

Video is all over the Internet this morning of a police officer at University of California at Davis walking up and down a row of seated, ...

By now, you probably know what happened. At least eight young boys were allegedly sexually assaulted and/or raped in State College, Pennsy...

This week, the NPR show On the Media had an interview with Laura Amico, the founder of a website called Homicide Watch D.C. This website...

Halloween in a school is always an adventure. The best advice for school personnel on this day was shared with me by a senior teacher early...

Imagine, if you will, that you are a protester at Occupy Maine, the Portland, ME off-shoot of the Occupy Wall Street protests. In the intere...

A dead lion on the Ohio game preserve. Zanesville, Ohio is basically under lockdown this morning after more than 40 animals escaped from ...

There's an old wives' tail that goes something like this: Male mosquitoes buzz, but don't bite. Females bite, but don't buz...

The Onion , if you're not familiar, is a "news" outlet that puts out a printed newspaper, a TV show and a website absolutely ...

There was a car bombing in Monroe, Michigan on Tuesday. How many of you just went back and read that again to make sure you had read it cor...

Yesterday, a small plane participating in the National Championship Air Races in Reno, Nevada, crashed into the box seats of spectators . T...

I've lived in this neighborhood For twenty-seven years I know where to get good bagels And exotic beers The favorite sidewalk cafes...

So, are you feeling like dog poop yet? Sick of the coverage? Want to talk about something -- anything else? Welcome to the 10th anniversary ...

All week I've been writing about how American society matches the symptom profile for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This morning, I ...

We're continuing to look at the ways American society is manifesting behaviors indicative of PTSD in the wake of the 9-11 attacks. Today...

Yesterday I shared the idea that America, as a society, is manifesting symptoms of PTSD. There are three sets of these symptoms, and toda...

This Sunday marks 10 years since the September 11th attacks. Everyone, it seems, is doing some kind of memorial or retrospective to mark t...

Rikers Island circled in blue on evacuation map from NY Times As Hurricane Irene churned its way up the East Coast last week, New Yor...

The remains of a VT highway bridge. It seems like I should have something to say about Hurricane Irene. I write about traumatic event...