Jasper C. Graf was far and away the best mortician we ever had in our town. At the time this all happened about the Arab woman and the uranium hunter, we had two, but he was far and away the best. If you live in a big town maybe you never think of morticians, or…
Month: March 2019
Immigrant Fingerprint Archive Will Be Scanned To Revoke Citizenship From Fraudulent Applicants
While the Trump Administration continues to play tug of war with undocumented families, there’s another immigration issue brewing. On June 12, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced it was launching a new agency that focuses on repealing naturalization citizenship from people who have committed fraud on their application, The Associated Press reports. “We finally…
To build peace we have to ask why people go to war
Members of a Senegalese Formed Police Unit (FPU) of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) participate in training on maintaining and restoring public order at the Police Academy in Bamako. Credit: Flickr/UN Mission in Mali. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. A recent spate of extremist attacks in Mali has once again underlined the need…
Obama finally called out trump by name, and his response was super corny
Former president Barack Obama made a speech at the University of Illinois in Champaign, IL, reemerging twenty months in to the Trump fiasco. Private Citizen Obama came out swinging, offering a rallying cry to the #resistance for the upcoming midterm elections, and condemning the toxicity of this so-called conservatism ruling in Washington. “It’s not conservative. It…
“Mr. Tutt Fights a Draw” by Arthur Train
American lawyer and writer, Arthur Train, was a prolific author of legal thrillers. His most popular work featured recurring fictional lawyer Mr. Ephraim Tutt. In “Mr. Tutt Fights a Draw” Mr. Tutt is disturbed when he learns about the burning of land nearby, and he immediately takes legal action against the arsonist. Published August 8,…
The EU and the right to education in the West Bank
Palestinian children approach a checkpoint in Hebron. Picture by laurawhudson / flickr.com. Some rights reserved. (CC BY-NC 2.0)The restricted right to education, plays an important role especially for future generations. Actors like the EU, which is the major donor of Palestine and Israel’s most important trading partner, plays a crucial role in order to open space…
This eight-year-old girl is going viral for dressing up like Michelle Robinson, not Obama.
Representation matters. Especially for children. When children see people in media and positions of power that look like them, it broadens their horizons and teaches them they can be whatever they like. The presidency of Barack Obama showed people of color — across the globe — that a black man could hold the most powerful position…
A dam bursts in Brazil, but the problems cross its borders
Mud sea in lower part of Vale in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais. Photo: Cadu Rolim/Fotoarena/PA Images. All rights reserved. At the small city of Brumadinho in southwest Brazil, a dam owned by the country’s biggest mining company, Vale S.A., has collapsed. On 25th January, it liberated over 12 million cubic meters of rejects, which fell into…
This simple iPhone trick makes it a million times easier to move your cursor in texts.
Imagine talking to someone from 30 years ago and telling them, “One day, you will have an all-powerful computer that fits in the palm of your hand that can perform countless tasks and it doesn’t even come with an instruction manual.” They’d never believe you. But it’s true. For the most part, when we get…
“Yash the Chimney Sweep” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
There are knocks and knocks. A knock on the head is no joke. The brain is a delicate thing, or why would the soul be lodged in the brain? Why not in the liver or, if you pardon me, the gut? You can see the soul in the eyes. The eyes are little windows for…