Florida school shooting: hoaxes, doctored tweets and Russian bots spread false news

Source The hours after the mass shooting at a Florida high school followed a now familiar trajectory on the Internet: web sites published hastily sourced conclusions about the shooter, and pranksters shared false photos of victims and the suspect. But the aftermath of the killing of 17 in...

Mass shootings in the U.S.: When, where they have occurred in 2018

https://www.abc15.com/news/data/mass-shootings-in-the-us-when-where-they-have-occurred-in-2018 The number of mass shootings around the country in 2018 continues to climb. According to data from the Gun Violence Archive, a total of 30 mass shooting incidents have occurred as of February 14,...

Church Elder Allegedly Killed His Wife Because His Religion Won’t Allow Divorce

Source What do you do when you’re a high-ranking official in a church that doesn’t approve of divorce, but you’ve been cheating on your wife? For one man, murder was apparently his only option. Stephen Allwine, a church elder at the United Church of God, has been charged with killing his wife...

Exorcists Desperately Claim “Dramatic Increase” In Demonic Possessions Worldwide

Source How often do you deal with demons? For one Irish priest, the answer is all the time. He’s requesting backup in the form of more exorcists for the Catholic Church, citing a “dramatic increase” in demonic dilemmas. Father Pat Collins wrote a letter urging bishops to train more priests to...

Random Memories

I had a random memory the other day, about a girl from my childhood named Pennie. She was a little younger than my brother and I, and was the daughter of a good friend of my parents, and she had a younger brother too. They would visit us occasionally, and we would visit them occasionally, and...

Can Donald trump grow a beard?

Donald Trump’s sense of self-worth seems to be based entirely on his status as an alpha male. He’s obscenely competitive, feels entitled to women, and is apparently fixated on the size of his dick. One hyper-masculine symbol, however, appears to have eluded Trump his entire life, for Donald...

Life Is Precious. Does That Mean We Have to Prolong It At All Cost?

Source Rose‘s skin seems to be transforming into implausibly thin, mottled parchment. She was never a big woman, but now that dry, once-soft outer shell lies draped over her slowly-wasting bones. Her memory is failing. Her hair is reduced to white wisps that barely cover her scalp. She can’t...

The Trumps asked to borrow a Van Gogh for the White House. The Guggenheim offered an 18K gold toilet instead.

Source The emailed response from the Guggenheim's chief curator to the White House was polite but firm: The museum could not accommodate a request to "borrow" a painting by Vincent Van Gogh for President and Melania Trump's private living quarters. Instead, wrote the curator, Nancy Spector,...

Woman Pulls Hilarious Prank On Husband Years After Her Death

Source Phedre Fitton had the last laugh after losing her five-year battle with cancer in 2013.Shortly before she died, the 69-year-old cheekily asked her husband, Nigel Fitton, to keep watering the plants in the bathroom of their South Africa home. He faithfully did so for several years until...

Grumpy Cat Shows Her Claws in $700,000 Copyright Lawsuit

Source (SANTA ANA, Calif.) — It still won’t make her smile, but Grumpy Cat has won some scratch. A California jury gave the furry frown queen more than $700,000 this week in a federal lawsuit over the use of her identity. According to documents obtained by The Washington Post, owner Tabatha...