Welcome to the pub, scissortail.

Congratulations!!!

This makes me feel so guilty about the Edinburgh thing.

Right on. Thanks!

In NYC the last few days doing FL PR. thenewgreen and I were interviewed on the floor of the NYSE by Cheddar. That was different and fun. Headed back to the lab to isolate some stem cells from fat. Not what I would have anticipated a few years ago.

I'm really looking forward to a weekend with family on a Michigan lake.

I've picked up editing Under Odysseus again, lil, StJohn, and _refugee_. I'm almost done.

I've been considering Brave. insomniasexx and I were just discussing it the other day.

Welcome, cinebloom.

Hey rinoswamp!

Welcome, scissortail and KapteinB!

Yes, neither have helped, but I don't see they have changed at the rate of this phenomenon. It seems like a genuine trend in the expression of despair. I think social media may be no less a contributing factor than guns, gun culture, and a lack of resources, possibility, and even norms for empathic individual interventions.

This has become a movement of sorts. I can't shake the feeling that a utter lack of hope and creativity is leading people to kill others when they often just killed themselves.

Nietzsche's Antichrist:

Love is the state in which man sees things most decidedly as they are not.