Living Through War and Star Trek
Messages of resilience—like those found in Star Trek—are more important than ever.
Repost: Major Fraud Stories
Jaw-dropping fraud cases: a real-life 2008 Nigerian Prince scam and a Vietnamese tycoon recently sentenced to death.
Speaking of Simpsons Speak
This is a nerdy look into where some Simpsons phrases came from
Repost: Dominic Pino, "The Secret Service Needs an Intervention"
“The federal government spends $6 trillion a year and somehow can’t protect sensitive sites”
Wêird Circumflex but OK
This post will likely get edited 3 times til it’s coherent, then submitted to Grammar Girl.
Repost: Age of Disruption, "Six-Chart Sunday (#23) – God Bless the USA"
“Are we perfect? Of course not.”
Metal in the Torah: From Swords to Smartwatches
G-d prefers DIY projects with minimal power tools.
Repost: Telegraph, "Dolly Parton scheme giving children free books attacked as ‘white saviourism’"
“Jennifer Stone asserts that Dolly Parton’s philanthropy is ‘potentially dangerous’ and smacks of ‘white savourism’.”
Repost: The Times of Addu, "The depopulation of Thinadhoo was 'Genocide'"
“Thousands were allegedly killed or disappeared in the depopulation”