Could this be true?
I don’t think so. Dropped from that distance, the force of the kid would have knocked them down.
Click here. What do you think?
What could be loonier than believing in Bigfoot?
Click here.
It was hard to get my head around this video: “Armed Chicago Woman Shoots Man Attempting to Rob Her, Now His Family Is Suing for 10 Million.”
But it was easy to get behind this one: “Florida Woman Fights Off Attacker Inside Apartment Gym.”
Why I Contribute to the Innocence Project
One of the cruelest aspects of our criminal justice system is the strategy of the police and court system to force the accused to plead guilty to crimes they did not commit. Before this happened to someone I knew, I would never have believed that anyone would ever admit to a crime he/she did not commit. But it happened. And when I investigated, I discovered that it happens every day. Literally every day. There is so much evil in the world, one would be hard put to identify which form of it is the worst. But accusing, prosecuting, and then imprisoning innocent people of crimes you know they didn’t commit is high up on my list.
Too few people care about this. But for those that do, rectifying the injustice is worth celebrating. Click here and here for two success stories.
“Go, Girl! Go!” I’ve never liked the phrase. It feels false, like wish fulfillment. But in this case, it works.
Click here.
A colleague sent me this link to a short cartoon/movie, produced by her daughter and college friends in only 72 hours, that won an award. It reminded me how sophisticated video technology has become since I made my first bad movie 20 years ago. I imagine that this makes the making of movies so much easier and engaging for students today that want to get back into motion pictures. Click here.
Would you do this?
I wouldn’t have the cajones, but this 15-year-old does. And he knows his rights! Click here.
The Irony Is Almost Too Much to Believe
Angela Davis, who was an important Black Power leader when I was in college (and is still active promoting reparations), has just discovered a startling secret about herself. Click here.