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To Beard or Not to Beard
A man’s beard is a personal statement. One of my loud mouth friends kicked off our get together shouting: “What’s this mean?” gesturing with his hand, pulling on an imaginary beard on the end of his...
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From the Office Where Soldiers Kill
Does it take a special kind of courage to be a combat soldier—who pulls the trigger from an office, thousands of miles away? I think it was the scent of the oregano growing in my garden that triggered...
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In Boston, There is no Finish Line
The winners in life are not the ones who necessarily cross the finish line at the race. The winners are the ones who never give up. Of all the questions the President asked on Friday night, four days...
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The Psychic and the Drunk
In the age of Facebook, a casually told tale can live forever. What are the implications of speaking ill of the living? My sister Marie said the belligerent drunk challenging the psychic was...
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Help Is on the Way
How do we avoid bystander apathy in an emergency? I think it was the training I got when I worked on psychiatric wards that explains my tendency to check out people in crowds for signs of odd...
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Let the World Speak Up About Syria, But Not Rush to War [OpEd]
Giovanni Barbieri would like to see a peaceful solution brokered by the UN to the crisis in Syria. And he’d like us all to help make that happen. — Thanks to Edward Snowden I have no doubt that our...
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War, What’s It Good For? Absolutely Nothin’
Oil is a filthy vicious sludge. War is a filthy vicious game with deadly consequences. And oil doesn’t make sense like war doesn’t make sense, writes Giovanni Barbieri. —- Oil and war seem to go...
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