Bookmarks: Sasquatch • Forgotten terrorists in Africa • 9 Things You Should Have Done By The Time You’re 50 • Why did HuffPost run this? • Football or porn?
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A staff member tweeted a screen shot of some bushes alongside a highway, speculating that they might be a family of Bigfeet. Or Bigfoots.
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Two stories. First:
The Lord’s Resistance Army has been off the radar screen for a long time.
“‘What they did to us was unbelievable,’ Susan Amoding told AFP, recalling how her childhood in Gulu was spent in fear of attacks by the fighters, who earned a grim reputation for slicing the lips and ears of their victims.”
Is it good that we have boots on the ground there?
Second:
These are the remnants of the perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide, who have brought nothing but trouble anywhere they’ve gone. The horror of the war crimes included clergymen mass-killing members of their own congregations, and instructions to the killers being broadcast over standard-broadcast radio stations.
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On the one hand, I have never agreed with the notion of setting deadlines for one’s goals in life. On another hand, I am surprised that the author lists goals that are absolutely out of reach for people who are not well off — like me.
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Stray thought from during the football marathon we were compelled to sit in the day room and watch Sunday night 2015-01-11 (And, yes, I believe Dallas got robbed. I cannot believe the call on that Bryant catch.):
“We’re watching football. Why not watch porn instead?
“Is there a difference?”
Originally posted 2015-11-26.
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