ShareTweetPinterest I stood at the kitchen counter, crumbled the paper in my hand and gritted my teeth, “Is this how my life is supposed to be?” I screamed in my unhappy heart. “Mommy, that’s my teacher’s note. You just messed it up,” [m]y 6-year-old son said. Although tears burned my eyes, I took his face […]
Harry Potter beach proposal a success
Image copyright Nia Roderick Image caption Ben and Nia met while working together at Aberthaw Power Station in the Vale of Glamorgan She said: “I got excited, because I love his work, and the picture contained some elements from the Harry Potter books. “I was standing there looking at the man doing his job and […]
People Are So Not Here For JK Rowling’s Latest Discussion About Dumbledore’s Sexuality
John Phillips/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images These Tweets & Memes About JK Rowling Explaining Dumbledore’s Sexuality Are So Over It By Mehak Anwar 2 days ago Sorry folks, if you see JK Rowling trending on your Twitter feeds today it’s not because she’s releasing an eighth book. In a recent interview, the world-famous author revealed a […]
Law And Addiction by Mike Papantonio
Story Summary: Novelist Mike Papantonio Pulls Back The Curtain On America’s Deadly Opioid Epidemic In His Spellbinding Thriller LAW AND ADDICTION Mike Papantonio is a novelist who knows his material only too well. One of America’s top plaintiff’s lawyers, Pap – as he’s called by friends and colleagues – has taken on the tobacco companies, […]
Japan scholar and translator Donald Keene has died at 96
TOKYO – Donald Keene, a giant in the field of Japanese literature and translation, has died at the age of 96. His death was confirmed by Akira Someya, secretary general of the Donald Keene Center Kashiwazaki in Japan. Someya said that Keene died Sunday morning of heart failure at a Tokyo hospital.
If you want to support trans rights, then decriminalize sex work
“You literally can’t support trans people while also supporting criminal laws that overwhelmingly target them,”adult performer Lorelei Lee tweeted on Tuesday.“[F]or a group called the National Organization for Women to tell women & femme workers that we can’t be believed because we’re controlled by men is just the fucking height of hypocrisy.” Lee’s tweets, while […]
How Arrivo Got Colorado to Back a Wild-Eyed Highway Scheme
The proposals that Brogan BamBrogan and Andrew Liu showed Shailen Bhatt promised a fanciful world: highways moving ten times more vehicles than they do now. Shipments zipping throughout the Denver area at 200 miles per hour. People getting from their homes to the airport gate in minutes. A new mode of transportation, moving people in […]
Rugby World Cup: Remembering the shock of the century
(CNN)With time almost up on the clock, Japan rolled the dice on England’s south coast. Leitch wanted a try — five points that would thrust Japan into the history books with the greatest upset in Rugby World Cup history. Meet rugby superfan Daisuke Komura Like the thousands in the stadium, Komura urged his side to […]
Woman Forced to Remove Dying Tree, Turns It Into Tiny Library Instead
When city workers of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho told Sharalee Armitage Howard they would have to remove a huge 110-year-old tree from her front yard, she was saddened. Determined to preserve whatever she could of the beautiful tree, she decided to turn the tree’s trunk into a free neighbourhood library with the help of the nonprofit […]
Theranos documentary review: The Inventors horrifying optimism
A blood-splattered Theranos machine nearly pricks an employee struggling to fix it. This gruesome graphical rendering is what you’ll walk away with from HBO’s “The Inventor.” It finally gives a visual to the startup’s laboratory fraud detailed in words by John Carreyrou’s book “Bad Blood.” The documentary that premiered tonight at Sundance Film Festival explores […]