Sun Sep 8 23:10 EDT 2019

WAMU's The Big Broadcast tonight included a WWII story, Escape "Operation Fleur De Lis" (Original air date July 14, 1947), about American OSS operatives working with the French resistance. (You can hear this week's program online through Sunday 9/15.) There was a passing reference to Phenix City, Ala. Quoting from a ( Read more... )

Twenty years ago, British mother-of-two Surjit Athwal was murdered.BBC Radio story about "honour killing"*, looking back to the first(?) conviction in Britain:I think more victims are able to come forward.
*Close relatives ((step-)parents, siblings, uncles, in-laws, etc) kill women because of (alleged) inappropriate behaviour deemed immoral or ( Read more... )

Mon Oct 29 13:12:53 EDT 2018

NPR Fresh Air 2018/10/29: Eli Saslow Traces 'Straight Line' From White Nationalism To Alleged Synagogue ShooterSo the Jews are behind the "caravan" of migrants from Honduras marching through Mexico? This furthers the goal of increasing the non-white population as part of the race war. But somehow the Jews are still ( Read more... )

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Wed Mar 28 22:15:54 EDT 2018Sacramento police fatally shoot unarmed man holding cellphone in backyard
Well, let's just ask it this way:How many of you would be outraged if police fired 20 shots at an unarmed white man in his grandmother's back yard?
Sunday 00:02

20 shots fired; 9? hit him, 8 in the back.
What sort of threat is a man facing away from ( Read more... )

Tue Mar 20 17:07:40 EDT 2018Maryland School Shooting Leaves 2 Students Critically Injured, Shooter Dead
We've had another school shooting, but the shooter (also a student) is the only one dead, so it doesn't seem to be a national-news story. The school resource officer was on the scene ( Read more... )

Thu Dec 28 19:02:01 EST 2017 ( Read more... )

Sat Dec 9 23:02:00 EST 2017

Nothing helps you feel normal like PostSecret. Maybe you find someone else who shares your quirk/kink. Or you find someone who's life is far more screwed up than yours: All families are broken.I shouldn't have read the letters I found that you sent Grandma from prison. I know more secrets about our family than I ever ( Read more... )

Tue Oct 3 14:05:49 EDT 2017

Is this past weekend's mass shooting at a country-music festival in Las Vegas another indication that we need better mental-health care?

It's obviously another indication that we need changes to the availability of guns - 23 in the guy's hotel room, and another 19 in his home ( Read more... )

Thu Jul 20 00:43 EDT 2017

We all worry about what information bad guys might get from our computers.

What if they put information on our computers ( Read more... )