++ An infant was killed by a stray bullet in Maryland. It had been asleep in a car when a firefight between the police and local teens broke out. The police said "their sympathies are with the family." The local radio station said,"the community hopes this will become a teachable moment."
++It comes out that Robin Williams committed suicide because he was depressed and in the early stages of Parkinson's Disease. Commentators say that this will be a tipping point in our public treatment of depression.
++A conservative send me a video of Ferguson which he claims it will be a "game-changer"--meaning it will change the way you understand Michael Brown. Yes, he's dead and was shot down when he was unarmed.
So it must mean he did something bad sometime somewhere in his life.
++Gabby Giffords being shot at was a Teachable Moment. The slaughter of children at Newtown was a teachable moment. Everyday the LAPD operates in the Hispanic community is a teachable moment. But despite the best efforts of activists and others nothing happens.
++In every election, they say something is a game-changer. In 2012,there were no game-changers. In 2008, there was no game-changer.
++There are few Tipping Points. We heard this all through the last Iraq War. Maybe we will hear this through this Iraq War. But there are no Tipping Points.
++Could we get rid of these words from our vocabulary? As Isaiah said, "Without vision the people will perish."
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