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My personal shock and awe

According to an article on the CBC news site and the Los Angeles Times, the body of author David Foster Wallace was discovered by his wife in the family home, an apparent suicide.

Politics notwithstanding, it's been quite a week in my household indirectly, and directly in the household of people I love.

Matthew Biberman writes today about the "tragedy of tragedy," about nothing and nowhere to fall from.