The Globe, naturally:
The migration of whites out of communities has also left many public school districts in cities made up overwhelmingly of minority students. In Lawrence, just 6 percent of this year’s public school students are white. In Chelsea just 8 percent are, according to state Department of Education figures.
Sigh.
‘Ageless’ animals give scientists clues on how to overcome the aging process:
The average American born in 2007 will live for 77.9 years, according for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Humans weren’t always so long-lived — even just a century ago, the average lifespan was 49.2 years. Clearly, technology has dramatically altered aging in humans.
Leaving aside the (apparent) confusion between Americans and humans (heh), uhh… what? The CDC knows the impact of future technological and medical breakthroughs on the lifespans that today’s 4 year-olds will enjoy? Maybe they can tell us how long the average American born in 2264 will live while they’re at it?
But given that TJIC calls about nine times a day, that would bump the the number of daily f-bombs my 1.5 year old is subjected to up by something like 10 or 20 percent… so I’m kind of still on the fence about it, because you’ve really got to draw the line somewhere, or at least that’s what someone once said, or wrote, or whatever. I think?
(NSFW audio, even though it’s totally fucking true and you should be able to scream it to the heavens in the middle of your weekly departmental meeting if you’re so inclined)
Colonel Thomas Blood (1618 – 24 August 1680):
was an Irish-born colonel best known for attempting to steal the Crown Jewels of England from the Tower of London in 1671. Described as a “noted bravo and desperado”,[1] he was also implicated in one attempted kidnapping and one attempted murder of the Duke of Ormonde, had switched allegiances from Royalist to Roundhead during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and later, despite his notorious reputation, found favour at the court of King Charles II and succeeded in eventually dying of natural causes.
The last bit, and its implied improbability, really makes it.
From a review of Drive Angry:
Be warned that the levels of violence are cartoonish but still very gruesome, even by the blood-drenched standard of contemporary action films. And like any good B-movie, there’s a respectable amount of gratuitous nudity, and prolific levels of cursing rarely seen outside of movies set in Boston.
Do people around here swear a lot or something? I’m mystified.
Doing a Chimp-inspired reboot. Might bring some old posts back, if they seem worthy…
Funny! And apparently for sale.
