“As an organizational anthropologist, McNamara conducts field studies with groups that are attempting to develop and/or integrate modeling and simulation tools into their work processes. She has worked with the Missile Defense Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the nuclear weapons programs at Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories to identify both the limitations of, and leverage points for, the effective use of modeling and simulation technologies in interdisciplinary research and development projects. Her research interests include expert knowledge elicitation, knowledge representation, distributed cognition, collaboration, uncertainty quantification, and verification and validation for social and behavioral modeling and simulation technologies. In addition, Dr. McNamara is a member of Sandia’s Human Studies Board.”

“McNamara lives on five acres in east central New Mexico with her husband, Paul Johnson, four German shepherds, and four llamas.”

http://est.sandia.gov/staff/laura.html

I am accused of sanctimony, by someone who pointedly asks me about my “humanity” (as I presumably lack it?). My question is: when did double-think become so incredibly prevalent? My second question is: when did the one-sided mourning of invaders and occupiers become the standard by which “humanity” is measured?

My point that readers of other blogs and news stories used the opportunity to make statements about heroism, and about doing “good” in the context of HTS, still stands. And no, I have no idea who Michael was, and it is totally irrelevant to my post, which was written neither as a eulogy nor as a personal condemnation. If only someone like you would post such warm personal comments each time an Afghan or Iraqi is killed by US forces, then I might be better prepared to actually take your “humanity” seriously.

There is something profoundly wrong with your thinking if you’d even consider ‘cheering a death,’ no matter how you feel about HTS. Most of the comments about Michael’s death are about Michael, not about HTS – he was very loved. Obviously you never had the pleasure of knowing him. How dreadfully self- righteous and sanctimonious. What happened to your humanity?