Is Maryville, Missouri the Next Steubenville? Some of this is misleading or missing some very important points: 1) That was a curious quote to choose from the sheriff. The Gawker quotes were more accurate. "For his part, White, the sheriff, maintains “no doubt” a crime was committed that night. The doctor who treated Daisy the following morning called the prosecutor’s decision to drop the charges “surprising.” The Sherrif is actually quite appalled that the DA dropped the case. 2) It is widely believed th case was dropped due to the defendants family connections: And in Maryville, the Barnett name carries a good deal of weight. Rex Barnett served 32 years with the Missouri Highway Patrol’s Troop H before embarking on a fruitful political run. He also has political ties to prosecutor Rice. In the aftermath of the dropped charges, this wasn’t lost on many in the town. " The police in this case put together a very good case. Jezebel. DUDES. Most of the women you are acquainted with in your lives whom you find attractive are wearing some degree of makeup.
Even when you think they are not. I—like Tyra Banks or Ellen Page or Adele or Megan Fox or Halle Berry—look dramatically different when I am bare-faced in comparison to when I'm wearing minimal everyday makeup, and even more so than when I've got it all slapped on for a dramatic look. I look great either way, but you'd probably say I look "tired" when I go bare. As if I give a shit. We wear makeup. The American Dream Still Exists. Wait but why: 20 Things I Learned While I Was in North Korea. Well that was weird. I was only in North Korea for five days, but that was more than enough to make it clear that North Korea is every bit as weird as I always thought it was. If you merged the Soviet Union under Stalin with an ancient Chinese Empire, mixed in The Truman Show and then made the whole thing Holocaust-esque, you have modern day North Korea. It’s a dictatorship of the most extreme kind, a cult of personality beyond anything Stalin or Mao could have imagined, a country as closed off to the world and as secretive as they come, keeping both the outside world and its own people completely in the dark about one another—a true hermit kingdom.
A question, then, is “Why would an American tourist ever be allowed into the country?” Allow me to illustrate what I believe is the reasoning behind my being let in: High Level Government Meeting And so, I was allowed in, along with a small group of other Westerners, accompanied (at all times) by three North Korean guides. 1. 2. 3. This is it. Travel While You're Young | Adam London. This is the time for small paychecks and big memories. This is the time for travel. We are about as attached to one location as we are to our favorite Chinese take-out place. We know what we like about it, and we take comfort in the familiarity, but that's about it. - Jessy Tapper Last June, Jeff Goins wrote an essay for Converge Magazine titled, "Why you should travel young. " Spoiler alert: Jeff is a staunch supporter of travel.
Although the message is not new, I found myself nodding in fast agreement as I reached the heart of his writing: While you're young, you should travel. I've had these moments and I've felt these emotions. The Khmer Rouge killing fields? Two years ago I stood there in silence, unable to talk to two of my closest friends. I stood frozen, thinking of the men and women and children and the pain they suffered. I stood in disbelief, selfishly considering the site's affect on me.
Through that naivety I became aware of just how large the world can be. Did it feel cheap? I Didn't Love My Wife When We Got Married | Elad Nehorai. I’m a ridiculous, emotional, over-sentimental sap. I guess that’s why I told my wife I loved her on our second date. I had tried really hard up to that point to hold it back, honestly. I wanted to tell her on the first date, but I knew that would probably be weird. I still remember her reaction. She kind of gave me this half-shy, half-amused smile. Then she nodded and looked off into the sky.
I wasn’t heartbroken by the response. But as time has gone on, I also realized that she knew something that I didn’t. Like most Hasidic Jews (we both became religious later in life), our dating period lasted a very short time. And that whole time I was swooning. But then we got married, and everything changed. Marriage, quicker than I was ready for, did this thing: It started sucking away that emotion. I tried so hard to keep that fire going, to keep that emotion alight, but it got harder and harder. How can you feel it when you get into an argument? And at first, it drove me nuts. His First 4 Sentences Are Interesting. The 5th Blew My Mind. And Made Me A Little Sick. Putin in The New York Times.