Overcoming Tragedy

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J.A. Adande is writing about Lamar Odom at ESPN.com: "In reality it's hard to think of him as an underachiever. He came from East Nowhere, and whenever he tried to move up he lost a mother, a grandmother and a baby son."

Holy schmokes! This apparently happened repeatedly -- note the 'whenever'. Damn, there goes another mother, grandmother, and baby son -- fourth such trio I've lost this year.

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  1. Bob Murphy11:35 AM

    At least you didn't blame Jesus.

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  2. gcallah12:44 AM

    I think you must mean, 'At least Lamar didn't blame Jesus'.

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  3. Wabulon5:07 PM

    How about the Jews? Or those contemporary Jews, the Moslems? Given any misfortune m and any group g, there exists a rationale for laying the blame for m on g. I have spoken.

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