Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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A member of parliament in the Bahamas has released a video from the passenger airport at Grand Bahama International Airport. It shows the runway under six or so feet of churning sea water, as Hurricane Dorian is parked above the islands. A video shot by a member of Bahamian Parliament, Iram Lewis, of the Freeport International Airport on Grand Bahama Island, shows the Freeport airport under water. Grand Bahama International Airport is a privately owned international airport in Freeport,...
A Spanish pop performer was killed on stage on Sept. 2, 2019. Joana Sainz Garcia was dancing at one end of the stage, when fireworks went off as usual, but somehow struck her in the stomach. She was pronounced dead at a local hospital at 2 am, about 2 hours after the concert ending experience. About a thousand people witnessed the event. "Nobody can explain it," said group promoter Isidoro López. "We have been doing the same [act] for five years." López said the fireworks generally last for 1...
The Toxicology Report from Tyler Skaggs autopsy has been released. Sadly, everything I wrote in the days immediately following his death turn out to have been true. A number of other newspapers called the Santa Monica Observer "Fake News". But remember, you heard it here first. Now a few observations are in order: 1. Drug use is rampant at Santa Monica High School, and other Westside High Schools in Los Angeles County. I don't know when Tyler picked up his addiction or where, but it's time to...
Those who know me, know that I am feeling my own mortality these days. It isn't just the wad of cotton that's taped to my face, as a result of my second surgery to remove a cancerous growth behind my right eye. It isn't just my 59th birthday. It isn't just the death of my brother at 65 last year, from a mysterious illness that turned out to be a combination of Sarcoidosis and early onset Alzheimer's disease. It's the realization that I have become older and wiser and unwilling to risk my life,...