No Sea Required Here’s the twist: gulls aren’t necessarily tied to the sea and can thrive far from it. Your friend in the Midwest, who had a run-in with a bird while loading groceries, already knows this. (For the record, the most common gull in Kansas City is the Ring-billed G...
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there are very few cars and almost no traffic. The city is also very safe. Believe it or not, many people don’t lock their doors during the day ... or at night. In addition to these things, San Luis Obispo
This Instagram star is a trooper. We heated up some French press coffee and shivered as we gazed over the crystal clear blue water. The temperature at the end of that six mile hike was about 35 degrees, and there was absolutely not another human around. We cradled the piping hot coffee ...
“patriotic” nutbags have carved out such a deep crater of partisanship, that there’s simply no shout from sea level that’s loud enough to reach them. So, the first step in combatting this level of delusion is to NOT TAKE THEIR FUCKING BAIT. Think about it like this: when you’re...
Then there was silence.Mickey had scored all right, but in the wrong goal, ending the game in a tie.For a moment, there was a totalhush.You see, Mickey has Down Syndrome(综合症)and for him, there is no such thing as a wrong goal.All goals were celebrated by a joyous hug from Mi...
As a physician who travels quite a lot, I spend a lot of time on planes listening for that dreaded “Is there a doctor on board?” announcement. I’ve been 16 only once — for a woman who had merely fainted. But the 17
After fourteen years of the War on Terror, one thing is clear: the West is great at fomenting barbarism and creating failed states. Living with Ghosts The warm and glassy eyes of young Iraqi children perpetually haunt me, as they should. The faces of those I’ve killed, or at least ...
You see, Charlie was a coyote who lived in Wyoming with his adoptive mother, Shreve Stockton. Shreve is the author of the blog Honey Rock Dawn (http://honeyrockdawn.com/) and The Daily Coyote (http://www.dailycoyote.net/) where she has chronicled not only Charlie’s 13 years of ...
The Devil respects and takes advantage of the natural authority structures God has given us through the family. Just as there is the principle of redundancy in the order of grace (“grace flows downhill”), so does sin. This works in natural authority structures such as the family. I...