Cartoon – Welcome To Hell
A desparate farmer killed himself in public, and India’s politicians do little more than point their fingers. Gajendra Singh, 43, climbed a tree and hanged himself during a rally against the government’s new land acquisition bill. A suicide note said his crop had failed and he could not support his three children. Singh joins “a long list of farmers who […]
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Young Muslims are still flocking to radical jihadist groups in record numbers. A United Nations study found that at least 25,000 people from more than 100 nations have left home to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and other radical groups. The number of foreign terrorist fighters worldwide increased by 71 percent from mid-2014 to March 2015.
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Of the world’s billion Internet users, one in three logs on in English. That’s no surprise. The technology got its start in the U.S., most Web pages are English, and more than 60 percent of the U.S., Canadian, U.K., and Australian populations are online. But China is catching up. The number of Chinese speakers using the Internet is five times […]
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THE LINT LIMERICK (By Joseph Cavera) There once was a swordsman named Link Who wore everything from light blue to pink He unsheathed his sword As he confronted a demon horde Who beat him with clubs in a wink Ganondorf was a man of Hyrule, Who one day, challenged link to a duel To the warriors surprise He […]
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“How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?” – Logan Smith
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“Be yourself” is about the worst advice you can give some people. – Tom Masson
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