I dont think anyone grows up wanting to be a prison guard. I was going to school for my two-year degree in criminal justice and waiting for the local police department to call me. I had gotten a letter from New York state asking if I was interested in being…
Donald Trumps re-election campaign is running new Facebook ads that insist the president is an advocate for peace and will stop Americas so-called forever wars. Oddly enough, the ads also acknowledge that Trump dabbles in political assassinations. In fact, those assassinations are central to Trumps idea of peace, and in…
It’s a jam-packed week of news thanks to Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event. Cherlynn and Devindra chat about the Galaxy Note (and Ultra!), the Z Fold 2, Tab S7 and S7+, Watch 3 and Buds Live. Whew. And they still find time to go into Cherlynn’s glowing Pixel 4a review, and…
The splashdown of two American astronauts, Robert L. Benken and Douglas G. Hurley, in the Gulf of Mexico last Sunday was historic in many ways. It was the first water landing by NASA since 1975, and marked the completion of the first manned trip into outer space by a private…
MUMBAI (Reuters) – World TeamTennis organisers are keen to share with other sports their experience of hosting a three-week tournament inside a bio-secure ‘bubble’ amid the COVID-19 pandemic, chief executive Carlos Silva told Reuters. The nine-team competition, co-founded by tennis great Billie Jean King in the 1970s, was one of…
MUMBAI (Reuters) – World TeamTennis organisers are keen to share with other sports their experience of hosting a three-week tournament inside a bio-secure ‘bubble’ amid the COVID-19 pandemic, chief executive Carlos Silva told Reuters. The nine-team competition, co-founded by tennis great Billie Jean King in the 1970s, was one of…
The U.S. State Department issued a new travel warning for New Zealand this week, warning Americans to exercise increased caution because the country poses a health risk due to the covid-19 pandemic. In reality, New Zealand hasnt had community spread of the coronavirus in months and has just 23 active…
Necrobarista will take you on a journey through an oddly-comforting caffeine-fueled purgatory, but its story stumbles in some vital places. Death is a tender subject to most, but this visual novel does not shy away from it, embracing it by throwing jokes in its face. The story focuses on an…
As an immigrant from Nicaragua, I’ve been open about the discrimination I have faced in my life. I’ve experienced it from police enforcement, in my professional life, my social life, and even in the affluent suburb where I live. Many of these instances were microaggressions, rolled out over time that…
“Eternal optimism” has always been my personal M.O., and it’s the foundation for how I take on the world day-to-day. But this year, the pandemic and its effects have suppressed my usually sunny attitude as unfamiliar feelings of our new reality creep in. Even still, dark clouds can illuminate silver linings,…