Expectations

Short Skirt, Long Jacket

Brings me back to summer days of yore. "A little bit I miss de rising action."



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Neo-Nazism

Came upon this article, scary stats from one study.

One in twenty boys a member of neo-Nazi group

March 18, 2009, 13:57

Roughly one in twenty 15-year-old German males is a member of a neo-Nazi group, a higher proportion than are involved in mainstream politics, according to a study released on Tuesday. Anti-semitic crimes are reportedly also on the rise, leaving many politicians worrysome about a potential resurgence of right-wing extremism...

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Just Dance - Don't Stop Believing

Awesome remix of Lady Gaga's Just Dance with Journey's Don't Stop Believing.

Eclipse

Sometimes I feel like...

First Day of My Life

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Fatal Distraction

A friend of mine recently sent me a link to this article in the Washington Post. Once I started reading, I couldn't stop. It's shocking, sad, thought-provoking, and well written. It's somewhat lengthy, but a very fascinating, albeit heart-wrenching, read.

Fatal Distraction
Forgetting a child in the back seat of a hot, parked car is a horrifying, inexcusable mistake. But is it a crime?

By Gene Weingarten
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 8, 2009; Page W08

The defendant was an immense man, well over 300 pounds, but in the gravity of his sorrow and shame he seemed larger still. He hunched forward in the sturdy wooden armchair that barely contained him, sobbing softly into tissue after tissue, a leg bouncing nervously under the table. In the first pew of spectators sat his wife, looking stricken, absently twisting her wedding band. The room was a sepulcher. Witnesses spoke softly of events so painful that many lost their composure. When a hospital emergency room nurse described how the defendant had behaved after the police first brought him in, she wept. He was virtually catatonic, she remembered, his eyes shut tight, rocking back and forth, locked away in some unfathomable private torment...

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