Her husband came home, and the war came with him. The night her husband thought he was back in Iraq and tried to kick down the door of their home on Garden Gate Lane. He shouted something in Arabic she didn’t understand….http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-soldiers-wife-20130908-dto,0,3886158.htmlstory
I have all sorts of reasons for doing or not doing things. I usually consider the obvious:
Is it going to hurt?
Will this kill me?
Is there a monetary reward?
I can’t think of a single good reason to attempt what these four guys did, although their effort was brilliant.
Adam Kreek has just finished a four-hour overnight shift rowing through thrashing wind and waves. The two-hour nap he’s owed is even more welcome than usual as darkness fades into morning. Kreek, 32, and three crewmates had set off Jan…continue reading (via NextDraft)
Star Wars = Awesome
Parkour = Very Cool
Star Wars + Parkour = Awesome Very Cool (right…)
Just what I need is my kids (who are huge Star Wars fans) to see this and think that dressing up in costumes and jumping off the furniture is a good idea. Then again, maybe it is.
If this video does well expect a sequel with a parkour chase and epic light saber battle!…continue reading (via NextDraft)
It seems the best and brightest go into just about any field other than teaching. That’s not a knock on teachers. It’s the truth about the people with brains following the money. Can you blame them? Make education a profitable private enterprise instead of subsistence living and you’ll see the difference in the quality of graduates.
Kim Ki-hoon earns $4 million a year in South Korea, where he is known as a rock-star teacher—a combination of words not typically heard in the rest of the world. Mr. Kim has been teaching for over 20 years, all of them in the country’s private, after-school tutoring academies, known as hagwons….continue reading (via NextDraft)
I write stuff. It isn't worth reading. 