Recently, a comment was made to my husband (why not to me is uncertain) that I seemed angry in my commentaries published in this newspaper.

I took that as a compliment.

Yes, I’m angry at what is happening across the world, our country and, yes, in my own backyard. I can’t imagine that, in considering all the unrest, that I wouldn’t be angry — that each of us isn’t angry. And if you’re not angry, then perhaps you are part of the problem.

One of the challenges for a writer of commentary is to make every effort to offset the anger with objectivity. One way we do this is to report truth, facts. The atrocities that continue to unfold throughout war-torn regions in the world most certainly come with an abundance of anger. The loss of innocent, young lives should make everyone angry. The loss

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