Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is seen by some as “not real” or an attempt to “normalize” the behavior of children, in particular boys and young men.
Yesterday, two bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon. Reports say three were killed but we still do not know many details. My hands shake and tears form as I think back to six years ago when Seung-Hui Cho went on a shooting spree at Virginia Tech and killed 32 students. My brother was there that day and I remember the fear of not being able to reach his cell. When the cell networks in Boston went down, I felt for the families who could not reach their friends and family members. Not knowing if loved ones are alright is the worst part of any tragedy. Media coverage is going to focus on these bombings for the next few weeks and then will go back to their regular programming. Despite this national tragedy, we cannot be ignorant to tragedies abroad.
Imagine that armed combat drones circled Elon as a regular occurrence. There would be a constant buzzing in your ears, eventually joined by a sudden whoosh, punctuated by a deafening explosion. This is what daily life is like in Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia. We are not at war with any of these countries, yet we rain death upon them from the sky with uncaring, unfeeling machines whose operators sit in offices far away, detached from the carnage. According to Sen.