“Make way, good people, make way, in the King’s name!” cried he. “Open a passage; and, I promise ye, Mistress Prynne shall be set where man, woman, and child may have a fair sight of her brave apparel, from this time till an hour past meridian. A blessing on the righteous Colony of the Massachusetts,…
You’ve just been diagnosed with cancer. It’s not that you might die—you will die … that is, if you do nothing. So, you’ve a choice: treat it with unsavory-yet-often-successful chemotherapy, or resort to homeopathic remedies you found on Pinterest. What do you pick? Well, duh. You’re going to pick the option that gives you the…
My daughter’s favorite movie is Disney’s “The Jungle Book” –and she absolutely adores Baloo the bear. In the next to last scene, everyone thinks Baloo’s been killed by Sher Khan the tiger in an effort to save the man cub Mowgli. As Mowgli realizes what’s just happened, Bagheera the panther comforts him: “Now, now,” says…
When the winds finally died down, a pile of twisted wood and nails lay where his house once was. Again. This Collin County Sheriff’s deputy experienced something most never go through once, let alone twice: a tornado took the home he was building for he and his sons in the Dallas tornado outbreak in December…
When my siblings and I were younger we lived in a big old house with a big dark old school basement. One day as my dad was down there working, one of my younger brothers trotted down after him. He was pretty young; probably 4 or 5. As my dad worked, my brother casually tells…
Boy, were we in for a ride. “Wow, yeah, these are the Ferrari of dogs,” our vet said, in reference to the energy level the beautiful Border Collie we just adopted had. “You better find something for it to do, and fast!” he said. We soon found out that Border Collies are workers. They are…
I’ve been posting a graphic like this since September 27th. (Here’s a refresher in case you missed the last three graphs.) Why? Because the numbers simply do not support the narrative that cops are targeting and needlessly killing African Americans en masse. And you’re not hearing this anywhere. The percentages are virtually the same as…
I’ve been posting a graphic like this for several weeks. (Here’s a refresher in case you missed the last two.) Why? Because the numbers simply do not support the narrative that cops are targeting and needlessly killing African Americans en masse. And you’re not hearing this anywhere. The percentages are virtually the same as the…
Sourced as of 9/24/2016. Updated statistics and information source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/counted-us-police-killings
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