THE Japanese government has distanced itself from comments by a prominent politician that the so-called comfort women of World War II served a necessary role by keeping troops in check. Outspoken Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto said soldiers living with the daily threat of death needed some way to let off steam which was provided by […]
If you see something, snap something. Straphangers are exposing slobs who have turned our trains into the New York City schlubway. Scores of Internet photos show slovenly passengers picking their noses, massaging their feet, clipping their toenails and eating smelly food. One cringe-worthy snapshot shows a woman with her pants pulled down and her bare […]
Through the years I have belonged to several Gym memberships throughout Sacramento. I’ve belonged to posh gyms with shampoo slash conditioners and deodorant in shower. Belonged to the family clubs were members worked up sweat chatting about working out and to the bare bones gyms where towels had cords attached and you showered in the bathroom sink. I liked […]
For the crime of smuggling rice into North Korea to feed his starving family, Song Hwa Han’s husband was jailed and killed. Three of her six children died of starvation. Her oldest daughter escaped to China and disappeared, possibly a victim of human trafficking. Her elderly mother starved to death. And Han herself was arrested […]
She makes news……Lindsay Lohan snorted a Pez Dispenser…. Lindsay Lohan arrested for shoplifting a can of corn…… A drunken Lindsay Lohan alludes Police in a Barbie car………. Last night I saw Iron Man 3 (it was okay) with Robert Downey Jr and I was reminded he was the 90′s Lindsay Lohan . Alcohol heroin cocaine […]
Italo-Moroccan fans in Milan during the European Championships in 2012. By Sophia Heydebrand As a child I hated traveling. My parents would sit in the front seat of our rental car (a steel trap to me) arguing and pointing in all directions, leaving me in the back seat to dramatically fear we’d be lost forever. […]
A man pauses at the makeshift memorial on Boylston Street to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing April 17, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston continues to return to normal, as businesses and streets are reopened following two bomb explosions at the finish line of the marathon that killed 3 people and injured over a […]
After a few text messages 21 Nimeha Milien and 19 year old Donald McGee. agreed to meet. Within a few hours, she said, McGee convinced her to come and pick him up at the intersection of Sheridan Street and 68th Avenue in Hollywood Florida. Milien said she then drove to Palm Beach County, where they spent time […]
For Christians in the wedding industry who oppose gay marriage, a moral dilemma has become a legal one Robert Ingersoll and Curt Freed of Kennewick just wanted the best possible florist for their upcoming wedding. But their go-to pick, Barronelle Stutzman of Arlene’s Flowers, told them her “relationship with Jesus Christ” wouldn’t let her participate in a gay […]
Wendy Plump talks to about her controversial memoir of infidelity Plump has experienced life as both the cheater and the cheatee; the scorned wife and the other woman. In 18 years of marriage she conducted four affairs, three early on before she had children. Her husband Bill, in turn, betrayed her with several women. Their […]
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