I never really thought about it before, but an elephant can use its trunk as a snorkeling device.
I enjoyed Gregory Hines’ work.
I hate having to turn the AC on in December.
I wonder how different certain network coverage would have been if Britteny Griner was a straight white woman. I also wonder how different certain network coverage would have been if Micah Parsons was a straight white woman playing outside linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys.
It would be something else if, in her first WNBA game back, she kneels for the national anthem.
The moment Griner was on plane and told she was heading back to the U.S. was recorded. She didn’t seem very enthused. I wouldn’t have been either, I would have held any sigh of relief or celebration until I was actually standing on U.S. soil.
Griner was jailed for possession of a substance that contained cannabis. There are people serving sentences for the same thing in this country.
It wasn’t until yesterday that I learned Paul Whelan was court-martialed, receiving a bad-conduct discharge from the US Marines in 2008, and his rank was reduced to that of corporal, when he was found guilty of bouncing checks and the attempted theft of $10,000 during a tour in Iraq. But all you hear from the media is that he’s a former marine.
I remember Mario Cuomo and Ann Richards doing a chip commercial after they were booted from office. I know it’s not quite the same, but maybe Stacey Abrams and Beto should do one together.
Here’s the story of the lone survivor of a plane crash who had to live in the jungle for 11 days. It all started on a Christmas Eve.
Juliane Koepcke spent 11 days in the forest digging her way back to civilization after being the lone survivor of an aircraft accident in Peru.