___19___ Consider going on a diet: Is there more pressure if you don't tell a soul, or if you announce it to all your friends, with strict rules to follow if you are invited to dinner It seems an obvious way of making you feel guilty, but it can also be highly effective. 5....
The Boys Town played an important role in Manson’s education. He met Blackie Nielson, who he partnered with to get a gun, steal a car, and run away. They both headed to Peoria, Illinois, committing armed robberies on the way. In Peoria, they met Nielson’s uncle, a professional thief...
Neither the shooter nor Opus knew that a safety net had been put up at the eighth floor level to protect some window washers and that Opus would not have been able to complete his suicide anyway because of this. The room on the ninth floor where the shotgun blast went through was ...
Tom Cruise is considered among the biggest movie stars of all time. He's played iconic roles in "Top Gun," "Cocktail," and "A Few Good Men." He does all his own stunt work as Ethan Hunt in the "Mission: Impossible" franchise. Though Cruise has never won an Oscar, he's earned th...
As for the weapon itself, you can buy two Springfield XD’s for the price of one of FN’s strangely-chambered pistols. Did I mention that the Five-SeveN’s safety sits on the side of the gun’s barrel? Or that the grip is longer (end-to-end) than War and Peace? All of which ...
In this case, the Supreme Court rules that a mother who is at risk of losing parental rights for her child is not entitled to a lawyer during the proceedings. This episode features discussions of families interacting with social services and the foster system. Please take care while listening....
“…Effective safety catches, whether in the form of rules or physical safeguards, meant potentialdelaysin response. And delays were anathema, dangerous to the mission—of disarming the enemy—and to the survival of the weapons, the command system, and the nation…In the face of an enemy beli...
MacKinnon also tells us that just over a year before revolution took Egypt, First Lady Suzanne Mubarak gave an unscheduled speech on online child safety at the UN-formed multi-stakeholder Internet Governance Forum. Before her husband's regime fell, Mrs. Mubarak promoted the Cyber Peace Initiative...
He insists on having the gun even though I had offered him the knife first. “I need that gun man,” he says. “I’m the one that’s fucking going to take the man. You’ll be able to keep that bitch at bay with the knife.” “Fine, fine,” I say somewhat reluctantly. “...
If you’re among the “disgruntled”, or (alternatively) not – yet disgruntled, but considering it, break some rules. Meet your “school mates” outside the hallowed halls, or reach out to me, persona non grata. Maybe you’ll enjoy your free speech as much as“they”(cough) enjoyed ...