4 Shot to Death, 11 injured
in unrelated shootings over 21 hours this weekend This story linked above was in the Washington Post. A story about soldiers plastered all across the front page? No, that's what you would assume and where you would find it if it were soldiers. But instead it was in the District of Columbia; which means it was ( Read more... )

I'll never catch up with the whole LJ thing.
I can at least make an effort.


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This is way, way past time. But I want to have it down so that I always remember. Plus, this is just one example of when filmcritic was( really wonderful to me. )

I just had a conversation here at work about the case of the Chicago cop who beat a female bartender (literally half his size) in February. I've heard multiple people ask about why the two guys didn't jump in to help the woman who was being beaten right in front of them ( Read more... )

So, my friend Alphapythia asked recently about people’s hobbies. It was a nice thing for her to do. Trying to make a list reminded me of some that I had forgotten about for a while. It has also been a while on some of them so I am interpreting this as one of a series of reminders from the Universe to get my ass back into the darkroom. Darkroom is a good ( Read more... )