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Beau Biden, age 46, has died.
This video seems fitting. It's the vice president, speaking in 2012 with families of fallen soldiers. He candidly recounts his own struggle with the tragic loss of his first wife and their daughter in an accident when he was age 29.
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“Everyone is in shock.” That’s how former Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) summed up the feelings of official Washington — among Republicans especially — after Thursday’s stunning federal indictment of former Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.). “I am absolutely floored by this,” Davis added. “I hope to God it’s not true.”
Oh come on. They never heard the rumors? What shocks me is that these pols would be shocked.
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12 shot dead and 44 wounded in Memorial Day weekend shootings in Chicago. In the past week, we also saw a 7-year-old shot, a great-grandmother shot and a 4-year-old girl shot in the head.
The video below was captured by a guy who keeps a dashcam running while his vehicle is parked. The action begins at 1:20. Fortunately, the innocent woman who was just passing by turned the corner before the shooting commenced. It doesn't always work out that way.
The video is a bit confusing. The shooter is exchanging gunfire with someone off camera. The car in the road is the getaway vehicle for the two animals who are visible in the footage.
These two will be caught. Heavy play of this video in mass media guarantees it.
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Individuals identified by DNA testing as closer than the fourth cousin range haven't responded when I email to say hello. People who are identified as more distantly related have all responded, some quite enthusiastically maintaining contact. Perhaps when the genetic relationship is known to be closer, people fear that they'll feel a sense of claustrophobic obligation.
In a way, this is consistent with something I felt historically about some second cousins and most third cousins, I felt they were family, but I didn't have an interest in really connecting with them. I preferred my large first cousin family and, at the second cousin level, cousins who were multiply related to me. But I also felt that I was supposed to treat the more distant cousins like family, even though I didn't really feel a sense of emotional kinship.
On the other hand, encountering people who are 4th cousin or even more distantly related seems more like a fun coincidence unburdened by a sense of familial obligation.
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Well what else would you call this?
The girlfriend of the 46-year-old man had not been able to reach him for two days, and called police Tuesday asking for an officer to check on him. An officer went to the man's home and entered his apartment with the building manager. The man, identified by relatives as Thomas Sancomb, had collapsed at the end of his bed, according to the heavily redacted report from the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner. The officer called 911.
Paramedics from the Milwaukee Fire Department said Sancomb was "cold to the touch and in rigor," and they did not attempt to resuscitate him, the report said.[...]
A transport team arrived to take the body to the morgue, but at about 3 p.m., Thomas Sancomb had "spontaneous respirations" and began moving his left arm and right leg, but no pulse was evident, Penn wrote. She summoned paramedics back to the apartment and called the family.
Sancomb's pulse returned and he was rushed to Columbia St. Mary's Hospital in Milwaukee.
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