When I was a kid, my brothers and I played “Cowboys and Indians” outdoors with toy guns, and our parents didn’t worry about us being gunned down by a police officer. That has changed. Yesterday, for a Cleveland black family, it changed their lives forever. Their 12-year-old son was[...]
Archive for November 23rd, 2014
November 23rd, 2014 - 5:46 pm § in Misc.
Why I’ll never buy a subscription to the Seattle Times
Update (March 31, 2015): It now appears this subscription solicitation was likely a scam. An AOL news story published today says 5 state attorneys general have “filed lawsuits intended to shut down a massive alleged newspaper and magazine subscription scam that solicited millions of consumers[...]
November 23rd, 2014 - 3:04 pm § in Politics
Senator Calls Benghazi Report ‘Crap’
“Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, doesn’t think much of a new report from the House Intelligence Committee that exonerates the administration of any alleged wrongdoing in its response to the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. ‘I think the report is full of crap,’[...]
November 23rd, 2014 - 1:16 pm § in Misc.
Slur of the Day
Sakkiliya (Sri Lanka) an ethnic contumely for Tamils.[...]
November 23rd, 2014 - 11:54 am § in Misc.
Parents! DON’T Let Your Kids Play Outdoors With Toy Guns!
Because there too many paranoid and trigger-happy cops out there: “The 12-year-old boy wielding what turned out to be a BB gun when he was shot by police outside a Cleveland recreation center died early Sunday morning, a police union official confirmed. … The shooting came after a man [...]
November 23rd, 2014 - 11:10 am § in The Ave Scene
Can The UW Huskies Compete With The Harvard Johns?
As the UW football season winds down to an anti-climatic try at a minor bowl game, this may be a good time to compare our program with the program at Harvard. Going into the Yale game, Harvard is dominating the Ivies. One win away from an undefeated season and the Ivy League championship the Crimson[...]
November 23rd, 2014 - 4:00 am § in Russia
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Russia Recovers From Atheism
Life Without God: Non-Believers in Post-Soviet Russia Russia’s main cathedral was destroyed in Soviet times © RIA Novosti 21:00 26/06/2012 By Alexey Eremenko, RIA Novosti Tags: WWII, Soviet Union, Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, Russia “It’s plain scary to be an atheist now. I know cases w[...]
Israel Turns to Tea Party-Like Nationalism .. a Shanda
Netanyahu’s alliance with the American Tea Party could turn Israel into the opposite of the Zinistn dream .. a ghetto rather than a hime where Jews return tim live moing fellow semites. (from World Post) Israel’s Cabinet has approved a contentious bill… which claims to defin[...]