“The vast majority (90 percent) of lightning-strike victims survive. Most who don’t suffer cardiac arrest or stop breathing. Most victims can be revived by immediate CPR. Strike victims do not hold a charge and are safe to touch…. In many
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"In 1983 she was mugged when she was out with her friend Larry David. She smiles. 'This is the curse of Larry David…'"
“‘… it was terrifying but it was also hilarious. We both co-operated because there were two young guys and one of them had a shotgun, but Larry, I guess through stress, slipped into sounding like [the confident sports journalist] Howard
Target apologizes for a costume that — accidentally? — looks like blackface.
You decide. It’s the “Kids’ Glows under Blacklight Circus Clown Halloween Costume Bodysuit”:I’ll do a poll:
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"In 2021, Columbia University law professor Philip Hamburger argued that the U.S. public school system violates the First Amendment."
“‘Education,’ he wrote, ‘consists mostly in speech, and parents have a right under the First Amendment to exercise authority over what their children hear.’ Forcing families to accept government messaging — or pay a steep price to escape it —
The Japanese Prime Minister and the possibly reincarnated cockroach.
“Even after moving to the official residence, I carefully wiped down the floor under the dining table, put food scraps in a sturdy lidded garbage can, and washed and sorted plastic containers, so I was shocked when, one day, a
"They were a success in Hollywood on one level. They brilliantly scammed some of the powers that be…"
“… and I never ceased to be amazed that very shrewd, extremely astute, hard-bitten, cynical executives are still blinded by celebrity. There was no proof from the beginning that these people knew how to produce material that people wanted to
Talking crossword.
"If 'lore' is in part a word about treating fiction as a set of discoverable facts, it is also a word that imagines the hard facts of real life as part of a grand story…."
Writes Mitch Therleau, in “A Simple, One-Word Trick to Turn Everyday Life Into Grand Fantasy” (NYT gift link).“Share a piece of lore about yourself,” goes one perennial prompt post on X…. The responses these kinds of posts elicit are not
At the Coyote Café…
"She won’t be here long"/"Next: H&M- the divorce"/"This is going to end in tears"/"My thoughts exactly. She does not want to be here. Lawyers will be circling…."
Various comments to be found at the London Times article, “Prince Harry and Meghan moving back to UK this month/Duke and Duchess of Sussex have enrolled Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet in a British school and are preparing to leave