Who is more deserving of headlines - Charles Krauthammer or Anthony Bourdain?...w/Update

a purely rhetorical question.

While the passing of anyone is always sad for the people left behind, a person who commits suicide is particularly hard to comprehend.

Anthony Bourdain, a celebrity chef, took his own life by hanging at the age of 61.  I've never watched his program and confess to barely knowing anything about him.  From reports I'm skimmed it seems he was rather contentious and unhappy.

Charles Krauthammer, 68, has announced that he only has weeks to live.  This is a man, who despite being paralyzed from a diving accident, still managed to complete his studies and become a doctor specializing in psychiatry.

I didn't always agree with Krauthammer (let's face it - the only person we agree with 100% is ourselves) his gentlemanly demeanor and the thoughtfulness he applied to the discussions on many subjects was interesting and enjoyable.

It's also worth noting that Krauthammer specialized in depression and was involved in the creation of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders III.

I wonder what Krauthammer, someone who continued in spite of horrific obstacles, thinks of Bourdain throwing away his life - a life that Krauthammer would love to have?

Our duty as Christians is to pray for both of them.

Charles Krauthammer
June 8th, 2018

I have been uncharacteristically silent these past ten months. I had thought that silence would soon be coming to an end, but I’m afraid I must tell you now that fate has decided on a different course for me. 

In August of last year, I underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in my abdomen. That operation was thought to have been a success, but it caused a cascade of secondary complications — which I have been fighting in hospital ever since. It was a long and hard fight with many setbacks, but I was steadily, if slowly, overcoming each obstacle along the way and gradually making my way back to health. 

However, recent tests have revealed that the cancer has returned. There was no sign of it as recently as a month ago, which means it is aggressive and spreading rapidly. My doctors tell me their best estimate is that I have only a few weeks left to live. This is the final verdict. My fight is over. 

I wish to thank my doctors and caregivers, whose efforts have been magnificent. My dear friends, who have given me a lifetime of memories and whose support has sustained me through these difficult months. And all of my partners at The Washington Post, Fox News, and Crown Publishing. 

Lastly, I thank my colleagues, my readers, and my viewers, who have made my career possible and given consequence to my life’s work. I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking. I am grateful to have played a small role in the conversations that have helped guide this extraordinary nation’s destiny. 

I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life — full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living. I am sad to leave, but I leave with the knowledge that I lived the life that I intended.

Update:

Just to be clear - I am not judging Bourdain.  Just making an observation and comparison.  No judgement involved.  Obviously, for someone to take their own life is testimony to their suffering.   

Charles Krauthammer is both right and wrong...

when he claims that we don't have a problem assimilating immigrants.

He manages to side step the muslim question and slides into illegal Mexican invaders and prattles on about Italians and Irish. Allow me to say that my Italian grandparents were staunchly and proudly American. They never took a dime of government money and didn't demand free pepperoni.

The muslims in this country are most certainly not assimilating.  Take a stroll through Cedar Riverside in Minneapolis or drive through Dearborn, MI and it's quite clear they want nothing to do with being an American other than sucking up our freebies.

Krauthammer, due to his disability, can be excused from not going to these places, but we have something called the internet where he could do his own research.




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Sebelius speaks...

and flaps her hands around at a rate fast enough to change the climactic atmosphere of the room.

Women who flap their hands around, make claws of their fingers, and slash at the air are not to be trusted.

When asked early on if she had tried using the exchange website her answer was that she had, but had only gone so far because "she had affordable health care."  The arrogance of this statement when the Washington elites were essentially granted a carve out and we, you and me, are paying for their health insurance is galling.

While listening to Sebelius speak at this dog and pony show, I popped over to American Thinker and read  Obama and the Willful Blindness of the Conservative Beltway Intelligentsia focused on Charles Krauthammer and referring back to an interview he gave last Friday.

The article questions how someone with such a "towering intellect" could fail so miserably to understand who Obama was and what he believed in.

 First, we have to accept the premise that Krauthammer is a "towering intellect."  Really?  I never found him to be exceptionally bright.  Nor do I consider the talking head harrumphers on Sunday morning shows particularly smart either.

You see, smart people take a bunch of information, process it, and come up with correct conclusions.  It's sort of like 2 + 2 = 4.  How the hell hard is that??

I'll tell you who the real intellectuals are.  It's you, dear reader.  It's the Fuzzy Slippers, the Maggie's, the Odie's, the AOW's, the Proof's, Asylum Watch, Conservative Hideout, and Trevor Loudon. 

It's the Conservative Treehouses, who did such a great job on the Trayvon Martin case, Diogenes, who always cuts through the crap and get's to the point, it's Matt Walsh, Randy,  Freedom's Lighthouse, iOwnTheWorld, and MOTUS, who has mastered the art of speaking truth with humor - and on and on.  (Forgive me if you were not mentioned.) 

These people take information, process it, and come up with correct conclusions.  It's as simple as that.

Now we have the "best and brightest" questioning Sebelius about a non-functioning website. It's just so much sturm und drang and a waste of time.  The site doesn't work. We know the site doesn't work.  So why in hell are we spending all this time talking about the site not working?

I'm headed out to purchase a leaf blower because my towering intellect has informed me that blowing leaves around is way easier than sweeping them up.  Simple?  You betcha!

Time for my favorite kitteh: