“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”: The new warrior cop is out of control. Sal Culosi is dead because he bet on a football game — but it wasn’t a bookie or a loan shark who killed him.
His local government killed him, ostensibly to protect him from his gambling habit. Several months earlier at a local bar, Fairfax County, Virginia, detective David Baucum overheard the thirty-eight-year-old optometrist and some friends wagering on a college football game. “To Sal, betting a few bills on the Redskins was a stress reliever, done among friends,” a friend of Culosi’s told me shortly after his death. “None of us single, successful professionals ever thought that betting fifty bucks or so on the Virginia–Virginia Tech football game was a crime worthy of investigation.”
British Police getting away with Murder. NSA at work? Writer says house raided after online browsing. Music writer Michele Catalano wrote Thursday about a personal experience that may show, to bizarre but chilling effect, the government’s online surveillance in action.
Catalano writes that her home was visited and searched by members of the Joint Terrorist Task Force — a fact she attributes to having searched online for pressure cookers, while her husband searched for backpacks. Of course, there is no way to verify why Catalano’s home was selected for a raid — national security agencies are hardly free with such information. But based on questions posed by the government agents to her husband (she was not home at the time ), Catalano pieced together that a “confluence” of Internet searches — activity we now know to be tracked and hoarded on databases by the NSA — brought a SWAT team to her door.
LAW. Solving Big Problems. How the Establishment Press Got Rand Paul Wrong - Conor Friedersdorf. Most journalists failed to anticipate his role in the Senate, focusing instead on a distracting controversy about the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Reuters When Rand Paul emerged on the national scene in 2010, staffers at places like The Cato Institute and Reason backed him more enthusiastically than any other U.S. Senate candidate. I wrote a response to Jack Stuef's BuzzFeed article about me. Ruth Is Heartless, But the World Breaks Everyone. Don't date a girl who reads — Charles Warnke - think thank thunk. “You Should Date an Illiterate Girl”, by Charles WarnkeDate a girl who doesn’t read.
Find her in the weary squalor of a Midwestern bar. Find her in the smoke, drunken sweat, and varicolored light of an upscale nightclub. Wherever you find her, find her smiling. Make sure that it lingers when the people that are talking to her look away. David Sedaris: A Big Family, at the Beach. In late May of this year, a few weeks shy of her fiftieth birthday, my youngest sister, Tiffany, committed suicide.
She was living in a room in a beat-up house on the hard side of Somerville, Massachusetts, and had been dead, the coroner guessed, for at least five days before her door was battered down. I was given the news over a white courtesy phone while at the Dallas airport. Unemployment Stories, Vol. 29: 'I Can't Talk About Our Misery With Anyone. That Would Be Rude' Marcia Sirota: The Difference Between Being Nice and Being Kind. You've heard the phrase, "So-and-so is a really nice person," and probably thought nothing of it.
In my work, though, I think a lot about what it means to be "really nice" as I see a major distinction between being nice and being genuinely kind. The way I understand it, kindness emerges from someone who's confident, compassionate and comfortable with themselves. A kind person is loving and giving out of the goodness of their heart. 14 More Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent. Earlier this year, Bill DeMain introduced us to 15 Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent . Now that you've integrated those into your vocabulary, here are 14 more. 1. Shemomedjamo (Georgian) You know when you’re really full, but your meal is just so delicious, you can’t stop eating it? The Georgians feel your pain. This word means, “I accidentally ate the whole thing. " 2. Corvids: The Birds Who Think Like Humans. Matteo Walch, 8, strikes remarkable friendship with a clan of marmots in Austria.
By Rachel Mcdermott Published: 21:33 GMT, 26 August 2012 | Updated: 09:53 GMT, 28 August 2012 They are notoriously shy around humans, beating their tails and chattering their teeth to try to warn us off before emitting loud whistles to tell other members of their colony to flee.
But when these alpine marmots see Matteo Walch, they scuttle to his side and show him nothing but affection. The eight-year-old built up a remarkable relationship with the creatures since first being taken to see them by his nature-loving family four years ago. Doctor in mid-surgery heart scare. An Italian surgeon is recovering after completing a brain operation despite suffering an angina attack during the procedure, media reports say.
Claudio Vitale, 59, insisted on finishing the surgery in Naples before undergoing his own procedure to clear an artery, Ansa news agency said. Mr Vitale refused to abandon the operation to remove a tumour, even though he needed emergency treatment. Both surgeon and patient are reported to be on the mend. According to reports, Mr Vitale started to feel chest pains part way through the operation at Naples' Cardarelli Hospital. When the pains worsened, Mr Vitale's team urged him to stop the procedure and get treatment, but he refused. Why Are Dogs Racist? Canine Experts Speak. 5 Crazy Ways the Colors Red and Blue Control Your Life.
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Heal You Getty Now we're getting into Star Trek territory. Different frequencies of light have actually been shown to help heal the cells of your body. Julie D'Aubigny, La Maupin. Julie D'Aubigny "Beautiful, valiant, generous and supremely unchaste. " The Briefcase. Chapter 5. Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress. Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat.
When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought them food, water, gifts. He later wrote of this in his log: They ... brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks' bells. They willingly traded everything they owned... . An ugly carnival: how thousands of French women were treated after D-day.
The 65th anniversary of the D-day landings this week is an occasion to revisit joyful pictures of the liberation of France in 1944. But among the cheering images there are also shocking ones. These show the fate of women accused of "collaboration horizontale". It is impossible to forget Robert Capa's fallen-Madonna image of a shaven-headed young woman, cradling her baby, implicitly the result of a relationship with a German soldier. Abba girl's Nazi secret. By ROSS BENSON, Daily Mail On record and stage, Abba exemplified all that was fun and exhilarating in pop music. And leading the chorus in a string of worldwide hits was the distinctive, mellow voice of Frida Lyngstad, 'the dark one'. Abba's lyrics were often more poignant than their catchy melodies might initially suggest, but the Lycra-clad Frida, tottering seductively on her platform heels as she belted her way through such songs as Fernando and Mamma Mia, always projected an image of joyous exuberance.
She wishes she could do the same in her own life. Revealed: Assange ‘rape’ accuser linked to notorious CIA operative. By David EdwardsMonday, December 6, 2010 15:43 EDT One of the women accusing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sex crimes appears to have worked with a group that has connections to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Northern lights. Broken Tooth and New Macau - By Benjamin Carlson. MACAU — One of Macau's most infamous gangsters must be feeling like Rip Van Winkle. EMT cleared in May Day clash claims SPD officer lied about assault. A Seattle woman who lost her job and home after she was wrongly charged with attacking a police officer now claims officers lied in an effort to cover up excessive force during last spring's May Day demonstration. 'Arrest us all' Jose Guerena Killed: Arizona Cops Shoot Former Marine In Botched Pot Raid.
On May 5 at around 9:30 a.m., several teams of Pima County, Ariz., police officers from at least four different police agencies armed with SWAT gear and an armored personnel carrier raided at least four homes as part of what at the time was described as an investigation into alleged marijuana trafficking. Follow The US Marines As They Assault Taliban Territory In Afghanistan. CIA Whistleblower: “US is a Police State, Obama Consciously Allows Torture” Why Drones Should Make You Afraid. Very Afraid. Are drones far down on your list of anxieties? Outrage: Texas Women Cavity Searched by Police Over Alleged Marijuana Smell. Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com/bikeriderlondon. Scandal Alert: Congress Is Quietly Abandoning the 5th Amendment - Conor Friedersdorf.
Finland is crowdsourcing its new copyright law. Internet activists in Finland, upset with the country's strict copyright laws, are ready to take advantage of the country's promise to vote on any citizen-proposed bill that reaches 50,000 signatures. The group Common Sense in Copyright, which is organizing a campaign for the bill, says its aim "is simple and reasonable: We want a fair and just copyright law in Finland. " A man walks into a bank. Yes, Randi Zuckerberg, Please Lecture Us About `Human Decency' MDMA could be effective in treating post-traumatic stress disorder – study.
The Pirate Bay Reports Anti-Piracy Outfit to the Police. NYPD lied under oath to prosecute Occupy activist. Soviet Scientist Turns Foxes Into Puppies. Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, Liechtenstein: A tour of Europe's small countries. (PHOTOS) (1) - By Josh Levin. A Walk From Vienna to Budapest. 4,000 Miles Across Europe – on Foot: Interview with Paul Webster. Sunset As Seen From Space. Chromoscope - View the Universe in different wavelengths.