This is almost unbearably sad.
Although the Chinese river dolphin is 20 million years old, we only discovered their existence 80 years ago. They were immediately labeled the most endangered dolphin in the world. From that time till now, all we have done is argue and bicker about how best to save [...]
SANTIAGO, Chile: It had been 18 months since Gen. Augusto Pinochet reluctantly stepped down from the presidency and Chileans were just beginning to unearth brutal secrets of his 1973-90 dictatorship.
In a bleak corner of Santiago’s sprawling General Cemetery known as Patio 29, workers were digging up the unmarked graves of more than 100 people who [...]
Not bad for a dictator who killed more than 3,000 people for his own political gain, eh? Died a wealthy man, in a hospital, receiving the best of medical care, surrounded by his family, at the ripe age of 91, and never had to pay for one single atrocity he committed.
Apparently the families of [...]
Remember that Garrison Keillor article the other day that scared the shit out of me? You probably laughed it off.
Go back. Read it again. Read it carefully. Think about it. Imagine it.
Laughable idea?
Now read this.
Still laughing? I’m not. This stopped being funny a long, long time ago. [...]
Funny. I read the news maybe six hours a day on average, and yet somehow I never saw this story until right now.
Thankfully, it’s turned out to be a non-event. Still, I can’t help but believe that if this had been George Bush Sr. instead of Bill Clinton, it would have [...]
I only realized that this editorial by Garrison Keillor terrified me after I finished reading it.
I was still laughing. Not for long, though. I went cold with fear. Slowly, so I felt it creep along and overtake me. It took a minute. The awful realization dawned on me. [...]
Ahh, yes, the religion of peace. And ignorance. And fucking assholes.
Cleric ‘meat’ remarks spark fury – CNN.com
