When Jim O’Connor’s students at St. Francis High School in La Canada, Calif., learned where the Vietnam veteran and math teacher spends his free time outside of the classroom, their respect for him multiplied exponentially. As CBS Evening News reports: O’Connor can be a bit of a drudge. But the 70-year-old Vietnam vet says he’s […]
A Michigan State basketball star has struck up a friendship with an extraordinary eight-year-old cancer patient after meeting her in the hospital two years ago. As reported by ABC News, Lacey Holsworth says Adreian Payne has been her best friend during her fight against the disease. “They’re kind of like friends, brother or sister…They’re very comfortable […]
This video brilliantly skewers the idea that male rape is hilarious. As reported by Jezebel, “in only two short minutes, actor and writer Andrew Bailey takes you on an emotional roller coaster with his painful monologue.” “Bailey introduces himself as Will and immediately launches into a defense of why rape is hilarious (but only when […]
In a social experiment for a TV documentary 616 people were filmed walking past two young girls, who were left alone in a London shopping center. Seven-year-old Uma Rumsey and her sister, Maya, who’s five, were taken to Victoria Place shopping center, next to Victoria Station. They were left alone separately – but with tight […]
Chevron passed out free pizza coupons to local residents after a natural gas explosion killed a young worker. As reported by NPR, “More than 12,000 people from the Netherlands to San Francisco have signed a petition demanding that Chevron apologize for insulting Bobtown, Pa., after the energy giant responded to an explosion of one of […]