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Three days in Washington this week afforded the opportunity to read one of the country\u2019s great newspapers (and about its new Jeff Bezos-appointed publisher) over my croissant and coffee and smear myself with printer\u2019s ink. Not the same experience as online.<\/p>\n

I read the discouraging Washington Post<\/em> coverage of the state of affairs in Ukraine, and it offered a special section on Obama and Putin, which I brought home to read on a day when my blood pressure might be dropping. I\u2019d just read David Remnick\u2019s long piece in The New Yorker<\/em> about the travails of former Russian ambassador Michael McFaul and wasn\u2019t ready for more from Vlad the Unveiler (think bare-chested photos).<\/p>\n

I read about the disastrous state of the Ebola outbreak and thought about how last year Neil\u2019s 3-hour stay in the outpatient surgery unit of a new hospital in our area produced a bill well in excess of $20,000. That was for use of the room (no doctor fees\u2014those were extra\u2014no lab tests, no x-rays) and a carton of cranberry juice. What the struggling and filthy hospitals in West Africa could do with one day\u2019s take from that facility! Or any U.S. hospital.<\/p>\n

The second beheading of an American journalist, looking bravely forward while his assassins covered their faces, as well they might.<\/p>\n

The continued intransigence of all sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, rushing deeper and deeper into a labyrinth that would appear to have no way out.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department and Ferguson. Police forces in U.S. cities I’ve never heard of armed better than some countries.<\/p>\n

Inevitably, the Post<\/em> covered stories about people considering a 2016 Presidential run. I could only guess they\u2019re not reading the same newspaper I did!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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