Bookmarks: D.C. leasing winter space in motels for homeless families • G.O.P.-led House panel exonerates CIA on Benghazi • Exceptional...

Bookmarks: The walruses’ plight • Panhandler drives a Fiat • Forged DEA Facebook page • Exceptional horoscopes update 2014-10-20 •...

Bookmarks: Man’s name change dramatically improves job hunt • Jamarion Lawhorn update • An astonishing crime • Exceptional horoscopes...

Bookmarks: Terrorism and Islam • Lost sheep • Correlates of wealth and beauty in China • “Housing First” isn’t the answer •...

Bookmarks: 9-year-old kills gun instructor • Russian aggression in Ukraine • Third world elections: the loser cries foul • A bullied...

Bookmarks: In playground murder, 12-year-old boy charged as an adult • Homeless woman beaten by cop speaks out • Russian “aid” convoy...

Bookmarks: Are pretty women dumb? • Ancient Coins Found Buried in British Cave • Dependent houseguest ———— ♦ ———— Why do we let women...

Bookmarks: Sexual violence in India and Pakistan • Bizarre Iranian propaganda ———— ♦ ———— India 2014-05-29 Two girls found gang-raped...

Bookmarks: Myanmar’s Buddhist bigots • #BringBackOurGirls • Ancient warrior myths help veterans fight PTSD • Campaign 2014: A fight...

A previous similar collection of links to news items appeared here . ———— ♦ ———— 2014-05-19 Putin says Russian troops on Ukrainian border...

Bookmarks: Some news sites cracking down on over-the-top comments • Obama suggests sense of powerlessness in confronting the world’s...

Bookmarks: African issues • Supreme Court prayer decision ———— ♦ ———— Kerry pledges $30 million in aid for Congo elections Researching...

Bookmarks: There’s no humane way to carry out the death penalty. • The focal issue for the midterm elections • U.S. “torture” isn’t new....

Bookmarks: A knitting class isn’t necessarily about knitting • Ukraine crisis • The Bachelor • Neanderthals weren’t so dumb • When...

This is an unscheduled post. The letter copied below from Carolyn Hax’s column for today  just blew me away, as pertinent to current...

(Originally posted 02/23/13 at Trojan Horse Productions .  Reblogged 08/23/18 .) Colo. teen heard on 911 call saying he killed girl...

Bookmarks: Supreme Court to decide what constitutes pomegranate juice  •  Free speech means freedom to lie  •  “I’m not changing my...

Bookmarks: The flap over eggs   •  Amanda Knox    •  Another child star meltdown Child porn is not so simple    •   Promise for...

‘Case of sudden death’ in violence-torn C. Africa The only hell of concern to me is the living hell, in this life, here and now, that...

… is that he only offered her $30. Any woman I’d engage gets more than that merely to bat her eyelashes and giggle. In context, this...