Space Inside by, Melissa R. Mendelson Close your eyes. Wish the past away. Please, just go away, But it haunts me inside, Chasing me down Through the corridors Of my now beating heart. I want to disappear, Forget the struggles That brought me down, But I hear them now, Calling inside. They’re crawling in the space, Where I […]
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Bratislava, Slovakia At least a dozen planes briefly disappeared from Central European radar screens on two occasions last week, and nobody knows why. Air traffic controllers in Slovakia, Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic reported that radar information on positions of civilian passenger planes flickered in and out for nearly half an hour, and only voice contact with the pilots […]
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Percentage change since 2009 in the number of Americans who play football: -17 Who play rugby: +77
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Minimum percentage of Arctic warming that has been caused by commercial airline emissions: 10
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Five blind men met a camel. Each one touched a different part of the animal. Afterward all of them recognized it as a camel. “How did you know?” someone asked. “It smelled like a camel,” said the five blind men.
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In comments likely to enhance his progressive reputation, Pope Francis has written a long, open letter to the founder of La Repubblica newspaper, Eugenio Scalfari, stating that non-believers (Atheists) would be forgiven by God if they followed their consciences. Responding to a list of questions published in the paper by Mr Scalfari, who is not a Roman Catholic, Francis wrote: […]
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“There’s a stereotype that black people are lazy. I don’t know if that’s true, but I know white people went all the way to Africa to get out of doing work.” – Lance Crouther
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