My dad never did the socks and sandals thing, but he did dress like Frank Bonner’s WKRP in Cincinnati character Herb Tarlek often. I distinctly remember a plaid sportcoat of pastel blues and yellows with white leather loafers…
What a difference being an adult and able to make your own life choices is:
Guy with a gun prevented from using it to shoot people:
Cases overturned and (hopefully) fewer bad apples in the barrel…
Uttar Pradesh: Plastic surgeon performs 37,000 free surgeries to make kids smile
Plastic surgeon Dr Subodh Kumar Singh struggled in his childhood days to become a doctor; he now offers free corrective surgeries to kids born with cleft lip/palate.
Killer Mike has a new show on PBS… go to about the 20 minute mark to hear the interview with Mike…
And here is Killer Mike and El-P being BFFs for 7 minutes straight…
And Over/Under…
This could have ended so badly, but it didn’t.
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the crash of American Airlines flight 587 in New York City. We have now gone twenty full years since the last large-scale crash involving a major U.S. carrier. This is by far the longest such streak ever.
What we haven’t seen, however, is the kind of mega-crash that was once brutally routine, year after year. Take a look through the accident archives from 1970s through the 1990s. Seldom would a year go by without recording one or more front-page mishaps, with 100, 200, sometimes 300 (or more) people killed at a time. In the eighteen years prior to November, 2001, and not counting the September 11th attacks, the American legacies, which at the time included names like Pan Am, TWA and Eastern, suffered ten major crashes. The idea that we could span two full decades without such a disaster was once unthinkable.
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Almost nobody in the media is paying attention, trust me. Crashes, not an absence of them, make the news. Call it the silent anniversary, but there’s no overstating it: we have just passed one of the most significant milestones in commercial aviation history.
In another case of abduction, a teenage girl was rescued by using the hand signal developed by the Canadian Women’s Foundation, and now being publicized via TikTok.
cue all the bestest popcorn gifs
Federal grand jury indicts former Trump adviser Steve Bannon for contempt of Congress
Was just coming to post that! I needed some good news!