Kerry Dougherty

• Makeshift memorials

    Ever since the invention of the combustion engine people have died in car crashes. But - anecdotally speaking, anyway - it's only been in the last 25 years or so that makeshift memorials have regularly sprung up at the scenes of these accidents. [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:48am EST
  

• Last meals

  No doubt you heard the news. The commonwealth of Virginia executed two killers in the past two weeks: John Allen Muhammad - The Beltway sniper and Larry Bill Elliott who killed two people to win the love of his stripper girlfriend. No doubt you know how they died, too. Muhammad opted for lethal injection, while Elliott [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:17pm EST
  

• Our part-time governor

  Let me be clear. I didn't expect Tim Kaine to fetch my 7-Eleven coffee for me this morning. And I wasn't looking for him to run around lighting candles when my power first died last night. When I heard the whine of chainsaws this morning, I didn't expect to see Kaine out there working on the' [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:18pm EST
  

• Email of the Day

  Perhaps you saw my column this morning. If so, you know that I object strenuously to members of the media and certain hand-wringers in society instinctively painting Nidal Malik Hasan as a victim and making excuses such as: They picked on him because he was a Muslim. His car was keyed. People snickered at [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:24am EST
  

• What else is there to say?

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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 12:10pm EST
  

• Election Night

  Call it a columnist's conundrum. Political pundits were predicting a quick and decisive outcome in Virginia's elections Tuesday, which meant there was no time to shuttle between party headquarters in Richmond on Election Night. Hmmmm. Did we want to be with the happy people? Or the sad ones? [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:30am EST