Tina Brown

The ACLU and the rest of the left will wonder if this video was done on government time and paid for by taxpayer's money.

From another lonely veteran, thank you Officer Porcello. You are a credit to the NYPD and humanity.

I, too, cried while viewing this video. My dad spent his last 16 years in a veterans' home in northern New Jersey, and there I got to know dozens of handsome, sweet and valiant World War II, Korean War and Viet Nam vets. Here in Edgartown, Mass., we have seven WWII vets in their eighties and nineties that I know personally, but surely there are more. I teach the young ones here to salute them, something old fellas love. God bless Officer Porcello.

I'll take the beauty, humanity, and ambassadorship of Officer Porcello any day over that of Miss California! It is painful to realize the capped teeth, artificial breasts, bleached hair, and false eyelash shallowness we all celebrate. Thank you, Tina Brown, for doing otherwise.

The ways the greedy retain profits and externalize costs associated with doing business really has reached the point of absurdity. Greed-mongerers need to pay the full cost of their business activities. Plastics manufacturers need to pay to clean up their trash.

Look at the Wall Street bankstas. The government uses taxpayer funds to rescue them for trillion dollar losses from the dodgy financial instruments they invented and the ponzi schemes they operated. While "Main Street" loses 7 million jobs, the bankstas pay themselves billions in bonuses. If the global economic meltdown spawned by the duplicitous activities of bankstas is not yet over, then taxpayers will continue to cover the bad bets of the greedy, I suppose, while the fat cats will make billions when they win.

If only the human community could become as deeply curious and openly communicative about what the human species is doing in the world we inhabit as we are about the deceitful activities of wealthy and powerful people. Formidable human-induced global threats to human wellbeing and environmental health are just as evident as the conspicuous behaviors of the most greedy among us. To be a species with such remarkable self-consciousness, intelligence and other splendid gifts and to do no better than we are doing now is a source of deep sadness and occasional outbreaks of passionate intensity (likely signifying nothing).

Still I believe in remaining engaged in this worthwhile struggle, one in which so many human beings with feet of clay have been involved for a lifetime. For me, the first fifty years of life were lived, as you might imagine, as if in a dream world, the one devised by the greed-mongering Masters of the Universe among us. I had no awareness that a single adamant generation, claiming to be doing God's work, of all things, would irreversibly degrade Earth's environs, recklessly dissipate its limited resources, relentlessly diminish its biodiversity, destabilize its climate and threaten the very future of children everywhere.

At least we can speak out loudly, clearly and often about these unfortunate greed-driven circumstances, even though they are discomforting and unwelcome, and in the process educate one another. Like many in the Daily Beast community have already reported, I do not have answers to forbidding questions related to the patently unsustainable 'trajectory' of human civilization in its present, colossally expansive form; but it seems our conscious denial of, and willful refusal to openly acknowledge, "what could somehow be real" means that the requirements of practical "reality" cannot be reasonably addressed and sensibly overcome. A colossal ecological wreckage of some unimaginable sort is likely to be the end result of our abject failure, I suppose, to respond courageously and ably to the looming global challenges that appear to have emerged robustly and converged rapidly in our time.

Yes it touch me very much and is a very good reminder that there is good out there even in the most unlikely of places.A very wise call Tina