Virtual Flaneurism

When you see it, you will laugh.

Chilean born artist Sebastian Errazuriz on the chart he painted outside his Brooklyn studio reflecting that, in 2009, there were two times more suicides of American soldiers than casualties in Iraq.

It is of note, however, that this number may be misleading: Errazuriz's statistics reflect (I believe) all U.S. soldiers who committed suicide, which should include soldiers of all ages and all possible wars Americans have been involved in. So the set of individuals in the first column - all U.S. soldiers and veterans - is a much larger cohort than simply those soldiers who died in combat in Iraq. Feel free to correct this further.

If the army was like this, I would be there yesterday.