Apr 262013
- How can you help someone who doesn’t really want to keep living?: A poignant and heartbreaking story.
- The Internet’s Favorite Astronaut Cries in Space: Tears without gravity… WOAH.
- Top 25 Airplane Etiquette Rules – Don’t Ever Fly Again Without Them!: Alas, my favorite pet peeve — children playing games with the sound broadcasting — is absent.
- Five myths about Margaret Thatcher: I particularly enjoyed the first two stories. (The last… so much ugh.)
- Do high heels put 100 times more stress on your feet?: The answer is just what I expected: no, but they are damaging to feet in all the expected ways. I found the variations between persons and shoes pretty interesting though.
- Medical Emergencies at 40,000 Feet: Wow, don’t get sick on a plane…. really.
- The High Cost of Facebook Exhibitionism: “People who post the most extreme tell-all Facebook photos and updates actually do so on purpose. It’s not as if they forget to change their security settings or even have their photos updated by other people. They actually think they will look more popular, cool, and attractive if they reveal their wild, partying sides.” Wow.
- Some social conservatives threaten to abandon GOP: Here, let me open the door for you…
- What FDR said about Jews in private: Now that I’ve done so much reading on the Holocaust, I’m not surprised in the slightest. I’ve come to appreciate that many virulent strains of racism and anti-semitism were only eliminated from supposedly civilized countries quite recently.
- 20 Photos that Change the Holocaust Narrative: Three quick comments about the common narrative that Jews didn’t resist their own extermination. First, the “like lambs to the slaughter” line was used by Jews in an effort to spur more Jews to resistance, but then Germans embraced it to excuse their barbaric atrocities. Second, Jews had every reason to expect yet another spell of oppression that would make life difficult for a while then ease up, but not the mass slaughter that the Germans inflicted on them. Third, Jews did resist, particularly once they knew their fate, but mostly they weren’t able to do so effectively. Alas, most everyone under the yoke of Nazism — the Poles, French, Dutch, Germans, etc — didn’t resist either.