I feel like this would be an open and shut case. If she's vegetative, and the paternity test matches him, that's pretty definitive. She couldn't consent, and he raped her.
PHOENIX (AP) — A nurse facing criminal charges in the rape of an incapacitated woman who later gave birth at a long-term care facility in Phoenix pleaded not guilty Tuesday.
The first teaser for Disney’s live-action Aladdin checked all of the boxes it needed to: It featured hints of the iconic music from the animated original, its one line of dialogue was directly lifted from an important scene in the original, and it featured a quick reveal of Aladdin himself reaching for the magic lamp.…
John Cougar Mellencamp’s always been outspoken politically, and, though he’s cagey about assigning himself to a particular party, his career has seen him taking shots at Ronald Reagan and John McCain and playing rallies for Barack Obama.
We’ve established that I’m a huge fan of Cookie Monster, the most orally challenged but also the most literarily adept muppet. But even with those cards on the table, this Reddit AMA is something special.
Q: Is there anything you won’t eat? I mean, I’ve seen you eat a typewriter before…
A: Me stay away from anything in Oscar’s trashcan. Otherwise me not picky.
Q: My 7-year-old daughter is about to start selling cookies for Girl Scouts. Do you have any advice for her?
A: Don’t eat the product!
Q: There’s been a lot of famous people who have come to visit you and your friends on Sesame Street! Did any of those guests give you a cookie?
A: Me friends have surprised me with lots of cookies! Sir Ian Mckellan even gave me two cookies!
Q: Who would you most like to sing a “C is for Cookie” duet with?
A: Me would love to sing duet with Lady Gaga. Me and me friends are monsters after all. Me hope she see dis!
Q: What is the optimum number of chocolate chips per cookie?
A: Me always say the more the merrier. Me think me need at least 3.14 chocolate chippies per nom nom. MMM pi
Q: If you could only eat one type of cookie for the rest of your life, what would it be?
A: Wow! Me didn’t realize these question be so hard. If me had to choose just one cookie, me would have to pick me Mommy’s classic chocolate chippie!
Q: We know cookies are your favourite food. What is your second favourite food?
A: Can me say more cookies…? A2: Me thought it over. Definitely “more cookies.”
Q: My son is your biggest fan in the world. His name is Nico and he’s almost 2. Any words of advice for him???
A: Me think it important to always share your cookies. Me know it hard to do sometimes, but it da kind thing to do. A2: Oh, and HI NICO! Me love you!
Q: What was it like working with Jim Henson?
A: Me never sure what he did, but he always around to lend a hand and give me cookie!
Q: How’s the rent on Sesame Street?
A: Me think you confused…. Rent played on different street, me think Broadway?
It goes on and on like this. Maybe I’m too much of a softie (probably underbaked… god, it’s contagious), but I love this.
A year ago, Chicago had no omakase restaurants. You could find omakase — a multi-course, chef’s-choice progression of dishes — as an option at some places, but there were no restaurants devoted to the style.
Now there are three, and soon four, once B.K. Park (chef/owner of Juno) gets Mako up and...
thousands of black men are incarcerated for life over minor marijuana offenses, but hey, you can get a real nice millennial pink bong to match your midcentury modern decor
Stop us if you’ve heard this one: A wealthy huckster lures a bunch of people to an island, promising them a life-changing experience that they’ll never forget. When they get there, it turns out that corners have been cut, emergency services are inadequate, and greed and self-interest have doomed the whole thing from…
For months, Elizabeth Warren has struggled to get from under the muddled -- and occasionally contradictory -- story she has told about her own belief in her Native American heritage, and whether she ever either claimed that background on documents or received any sort of advantage from it.
The eight-story development fills the neighborhood’s last undeveloped lakefront parcel
After breaking ground in late 2017, the luxury apartment development at 61 E. Banks Street is searching for renters to fill its 58 units which start at $7,200 per month. The eight-story project, from developer Draper and Kramer, is the Gold Coast’s first new residential building along Lake Shore Drive in three decades, replacing a longtime parking lot.
Designed by Chicago architecture firm Booth Hansen, 61 Banks Street features a stone exterior and modern interpretation of the classic Chicago style bay window. The glassy corners—along with a rooftop resident amenity deck—take full advantage of the site’s Lake Michigan views.
At ground level, the building includes seven two-story “maisonettes” with direct access to and from the street. These rowhome-style units are available in two- and three-bedroom layouts and start at $8,100 per month.
While neighboring buildings are primarily luxury condominiums and co-ops, 61 E. Banks is the first contemporary rental project in the immediate area. The shift towards apartments has been the driving factor in downtown Chicago’s multi-year building boom—especially at the higher end of the market.
“You no longer have to own to enjoy the craftsmanship that’s long been associated with a Gold Coast address,” said Draper and Kramer president Todd Bancroft in a statement.
As of this week, roughly 25 percent of the development’s 58 units are already leased, according to the @properties leasing team. Resident move-ins are expected to take place in May.
I'd add Under the Skin. I tore through that in one day. Great read.
First published in 1982 and re-released in late 2017, Rachel Ingalls’ Mrs. Caliban concerns a lonely woman named Dorothy and her brief affair with a kind, gentle frogman, escaped from a local laboratory. Ingalls relates both joy and pain quickly, her prose swift and unsentimental, even when detailing the tragic. Mrs.…
There will be no argument over the precise recipe for this regional dish, because it’s not even necessary here. You don’t need to be from Texas or Mexico to determine that this crock pot full of some ungodly substance, created by Fox News host Dana Perino, is not queso. It’s something the human mind cannot fully…
by Chelsea Stone on Kinja Deals, shared by Tercius to Jezebel
If you’ve somehow managed to survive this long without an Urban Decay Naked Eyeshadow Palette in your makeup arsenal, first of all, congratulations, that’s quite a feat. Second, what have you been waiting for?! Could it be, perhaps, a great deal on the original cult favorite? If so, you’re in luck; Ulta is currently…
The Cape honeybee of South Africa seems at first like an ordinary bee. Like many bees, it lives in a colony where the only fertile individual is the queen, who returns from mating flights to lay eggs containing more workers, each pairing the genes of the queen and her mates. But in certain situations, in which the queen is absent or a worker happens upon another bee subspecies’ hive, a worker bee can rise up. Freed from the hormonal stranglehold that the queen usually maintains over the rest of the colony, she begins to lay eggs.
Each new bee is a perfect clone of herself. When they hatch, the rapidly reproducing clones can take wing and raven through the countryside in search of other subspecies’ hives, where they invade hapless victims’ nests, lay their own eggs, and act as parasites until the host colony collapses. But by then, other copies of the insubordinate worker have been born and flown over the horizon in search of new queens to dethrone.
In a bee, this is monstrously strange. Generally, colonies of bees and other social insects function like a single superorganism, with the many supporting the reproduction of the few. They are all so closely related that this amounts to helping themselves. When a Cape honeybee transforms from a placid social insect into a parasite, it’s doing something that appears outside the natural order. Ever since people discovered parasitic Cape honeybees inside collapsing colonies in South Africa, about a hundred years ago, beekeepers and biologists have considered: How does this happen? In a new paper out in Molecular Biology and Evolution, biologists provide the beginnings of an explanation, revealing that a single blip in the genetic code is the only difference between these bees and their peaceful siblings.
From a colony of wild Cape honeybees, the researchers sequenced the genomes of a number of individuals, half of whom were the parasites’ clones and half of whom were not. “We compared these two groups,” says Denise Aumer of the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, in Germany, a biologist and a lead author of the paper. “We found only a single locus in the whole genome where they differed significantly.” After decades of mystery, seeing this difference was striking, says Eckart Stolle, Aumer’s colleague and co–lead author: “It was super cool to find a strong signal like this, because you wouldn’t necessarily expect it.”
At that place, they found a one-letter difference between the bees’ genetic codes. Looking closer at the gene, the researchers determined that it codes for a little-studied protein lodged in the membrane of cells, which may be involved in trafficking substances in and out. They also discovered that for bees to switch into this parasitic mode, they must carry a certain version of a second gene. On its own, this gene is innocent of any wrongdoing, unless it winds up in a bee with the one-letter change. Other factors in the bee’s environment, like a weakening of the queen’s hormonal control or the changed bee’s arrival in a fresh host colony, must also align. But with these two genes, a bee is capable of the switch.
Intriguingly, the study explains an odd fact that beekeepers and scientists had independently noticed. It is not possible to breed a Cape honeybee with a closely related bee subspecies and wind up with parasitic offspring—they are always determinedly normal. The reason, it turns out, is quite simple. In Cape honeybees, that second, complementary gene originally comes from the father of the initial worker bee, while the one-letter difference comes originally from the queen, her mother. Thus, any Cape honeybee queen mated with a male from another subspecies will never yield children with both the pieces necessary for the transformation. And it’s probably not a bad thing—it means that no other bee species can pick up this exact behavior. But parasitic Cape honeybees are still a real pest in some parts of South Africa, with campaigns to eradicate them, Stolle notes.
Perhaps this ability, odd as it seems, has been beneficial for Cape honeybees in the evolutionary past. The researchers observed that the bees’ natural habitat is quite windy, and the ability of a worker to transform herself into a kind of queen might save colonies when their queens are blown off course and lost during mating flights. That single genetic change and the hormonal storm it must unleash might have meant the difference between total obliteration and bouncing back from a loss. Rather than a perversion, it might represent a kind of awe-inspiring, if slightly terrifying, flexibility in the face of disaster.
ATLANTA—Shouting “touchdown!” while pushing the Patriots’ tight end along the sidelines, nurse Miranda Silva told a wheelchair-bound, concussed Rob Gronkowski Sunday that he was at the Super Bowl with all his friends. “Look, it’s your friend Tom! Your remember Tom, right? And Bill is here, too, Bill is your coach,”…
ATLANTA—Begging for mercy while watching his arms wither and skin wrinkle, a rapidly aging Tom Brady cried out for an old crone Sunday as her spell began to wear off in the middle of Super Bowl LIII. “Please, wicked conjurer of misfortune, don’t do this to me now, all I ask is for another quarter of precious youth,”…
The NBA has had a ton of run-ins with bats. In the last week, seven bats have been spotted in two arena on three separate nights in San Antonio and Utah. And it’s scaring a lot of players!
Not everyone is afraid of bats, though. In fact some are actively seeking they bite them.
On Saturday night after the Bucks beat the Wizards, SB Nation spoke to Brook Lopez on what he’d do if faced with a bat on the court. Here is the entirety of that conversation:
Brook Lopez: If you’ve learned anything from the modern superhero myth, if you see a bat around and it bites you, you have a 75 percent chance of ending up a superhero. Otherwise you’ll probably get really get sick. But it’d be cool to be a superhero. You don’t need to be too afraid, I’d say give it a shot.
SB Nation: So you’re going to let the bat bite you?
Brook: Yeah, absolutely.
SB: Are you going to just stick out your hands?
Brook: I’m just going to just make myself available. At that point, it’s up to the bat. A lot of it is up to fate in these superhero stories. But I want to give myself a shot.
TL;DR: Brook Lopez would like to be bitten by a bat so he can possibly become a superhero.
A complete list of NBA players who are and are not afraid of bats can be found here.
Dude. That's... ehhhhh, man, I don't know. NO bathroom?
Name:Rebekah Carey, husband Alex, and 3 pups! Location: Berkeley, California Size: 200 square feet Years lived in: 2.5 years, owned
Rebekah and Alex (plus their three dogs!) share a 200-square-foot converted 1905 garage they've lived in for nearly two and a half years. Though they're both native to Oregon state, they've lived in the Bay Area at different points in their lives and always felt a connection to Berkeley. When they realized the garage in Rebekah's grandma's backyard wasn't being put to much use, they asked themselves (and grandma, of course) if it had the potential to become a home. Months later, they embarked on their most laborious DIY project ever, but as Rebekah says, "The best things come to those who wait."
To paraphrase Tyra Banks, I have never IN MY LIFE yelled at a television like I did while watching Abducted in Plain Sight. Here is a partial list of things I screamed during its 90-minute runtime:
“Why??”
“He jerked him off??”
“Why would you let him sleep in your daughter’s bed??”
“What??”
“Call the fucking FBI!!”
“How can there be 40 minutes of this movie left?? What else could possibly happen??”
“Nooooo!!”
The documentary is essentially a story about manipulation. Which can be an incredibly powerful thing. People have been manipulated into pushing a stranger off a building, stabbing a friend, and allegedly assassinating a public figure. But even knowing the degree to which people are susceptible to being controlled by external forces, I found it impossible to understand or empathize with the actions of the family at the center of Abducted in Plain Sight.
I don’t want to spoil the film by getting into too much detail on the many, many outrageous things that happen in it. So, without giving too much away, I will say it's a documentary about a girl who gets kidnapped by a child molester named Robert Berchtold. Twice. It involves aliens, arson, a fake therapist, Mormonism, and the world’s most ill-advised handjob. It is one of the wildest, most frustrating films I have ever seen.
The film first first hit the festival circuit back in 2017, but has gotten renewed attention since being added to Netflix at the start of the year, with hundreds of people tweeting some version of this tweet in the last few weeks:
I spoke with Skye Borgman, the film’s director, producer, and cinematographer, to find out more about the production process, and how the Brobergs, the family at the center of the film, feel about the finished product. I also learned during our chat that Bob Broberg passed away last November.
The conversation has been edited for length and clarity, and contains major spoilers for Abducted in Plain Sight:
VICE: How did you find the story? Skye Borgman: The Brobergs wrote a book in the early 2000s. I was completely shocked by all of it and I really wanted to figure out how something like this could happen.
You said you wanted to figure out how something like this could happen. I don’t mean to suggest you failed as a documentarian, but, watching it, I was just like, What are these people doing? Do you think you came out of it with more of an understanding than you went in with? Yeah, for sure. For sure I came out with more of an understanding than I did going in. And that’s primarily due to the fact that both of the parents' sexual affairs were left out of the book.
Right. And as soon as I found out about those two affairs—I don’t want to say it made sense, but I could kind of understand how shame and denial were really used to blackmail them. And that started to make a lot more sense to me. I still feel like there were a lot of different elements that came into their world. I think their religion, the fact that they trusted so completely, played a huge part in them making some of the decisions they made.
How Mormon were they, and how do you think that played into what happened? They’re very committed to the LDS Church. They were then, they are now. I think it played a very large role in their beliefs at the time, I also feel like it's part of what kept them together as a family. And even to this day, you know, talking to them, they still choose to trust people. They would rather trust people than distrust them, even considering everything that happened. It’s certainly something that was, I think, the pathway to opening them up to a perpetrator really infiltrating their family.
They seem like very nice people. Was it difficult for you to be in the room and interview them [and] not judge their decisions too harshly? The interviews were brutal. I mean, for everybody involved. There was a lot of emotion in the room, and they were long. I think really for me it wasn’t so much during the interviews where a lot of judgement came in on my part. It was really during the editing process. There were times when I really judged them, there were times when I really didn’t judge them. There were times when I judged Berchtold, there were times when I didn’t judge Berchtold. There were times when I really cared so deeply about them, and then I didn’t care deeply about them. I went through all of these different emotions and different levels of understanding throughout the editing process.
Have you spoken to the family since the film was completed? Have they seen it? Yes, they have seen it.
How did they feel about it? You know, they’re remarkably grateful. I really believe that it was cathartic for them. They’ve been carrying this story around for many, many years. They’ve been carrying the guilt around for many years, they’ve been carrying the shame around for many years and I think I honestly believe that their true intention is to tell the story so that they can hopefully save somebody else’s life and prevent this from happening in the future. Watching the film they came up to me afterwards and told me how grateful they were that the film was out there. Even today Mary Ann posted something on my Facebook page. Basically something to the same effect, that the film was out there and hopefully saving lives. I cannot imagine revealing so much on camera if that wasn’t someone’s intention, if they weren’t trying to do something bigger.
They seem to be very candid about some things they’ve done that are incredibly difficult to understand. Did the family watch it with an audience at a screening? Yes. There was a film festival in St. George, Utah: DOCUTAH. They’d watched it on their own, we had sent them a link to it. But the first time we were able to experience it together was in a theater full of 500 people, and it was nerve-wracking to say the least. But Bob came up to me afterwards to say how grateful he was that we had stuck with it, that we had told their story in what they had believed was a pretty authentic way.
Were there vocal reactions from people in the audience during that screening? Oh yes! Every single screening we’ve had there have been intense verbal reactions from people in the audience.
Was it awkward having that happen knowing that the family were in the room? Yeah, it’s awkward, but that was a friendly audience, it was their hometown. I think [the film] encourages this communal experience. People really wanna talk about it, people really want to share. It sticks with people, and they’re frustrated by it and they’re curious about it and they’re completely conflicted about it, and some people aren’t. Some people are not at all conflicted by it. But I think that that’s part of this film is this shock and then sharing that either in an audience or online, I mean there’s been a lot going around online and people talking about it.
Yeah, I ended up watching the film because a friend of mine texted and was like— “What the fuck, you gotta see this”?
Right. And I paused it maybe half an hour in to text four other people and be like, “Stop everything, you have to watch this.” What do you think it was when you were watching where you had to text your friends and say, “You’ve gotta watch this”? That it’s just so unbelievable?
It’s not that it’s unbelievable, so much as it’s completely impossible to understand the motivations of anyone. Yeah.
And then, obviously, there’s certain outrageous things that happen within the film. I think everybody that I just mentioned texted some version of Oh my god, the dad jerked him off. I know.
I imagine if you were watching it in a room full of people it would probably get vocal. It was really interesting the first time we screened it with an audience because it was at that moment in the car where the audience burst out in laughter. And I was so surprised by that. And then that reaction continued in every screening we had. And it was very interesting to me because I’d never really expected that to happen but it was a very consistent reaction and I think it was that people were so surprised and so uncomfortable that there was nothing left to do but just laugh.
Yeah. I think that’s what it is. Because, obviously, what is happening is not funny. Right.
I assume the reaction has probably been different from the Netflix audience compared to the festival audience, right? It’s interesting, because I think the knee-jerk reaction has been very sort of negative towards the parents and that’s very clear. The comments that people are posting are very much about that.
Do you feel protective of the family when you see something like that? I do. Yeah. So, Bob Broberg died like, a month and a half ago. [The family has] heard a lot of it before, probably not to the scale they’re hearing it now with all the attention we’re getting, but they have been prepared for it. I think the hardest thing is really that Bob passed away and I’m glad that he’s not seeing the comments that are coming out.
Yeah, that’s really difficult to have to deal with [the film] getting this second wind on top of that. Right.
Are there any other updates on the family? Has anything else changed with them since you completed the film? No. I mean, they’re doing well. It’s hard for them to be thrust into the spotlight for this, but they’re still committed to trying to get the word out there and to let people know that predators are out there and they take advantage of the weak and the naive and the gullible and I think, really, the message they want people to know is that anyone can be conned. I don’t know if that’s necessarily true but they certainly feel that way, and they want that message to get out there.
Yeah. I don’t want it to look like I’m just completely shitting on the parents. I feel very bad for them, but it’s also very difficult not to be angry at them while you’re watching. I know.
And I definitely respect them putting themselves out so publicly to talk about this when they obviously are aware what kind of a response it’s going to get. Yeah, I think they’re very brave to do it because they have been through it before when they first wrote the book. I have a lot of respect for them, I think they’re very brave people. I think they could’ve done more to protect their daughter, no question about it. But at the same time, I think they’re doing something now and I think the intentions behind it are very noble.
When I just searched for the film on Twitter there were a lot of memes that people had made, are they something that you can appreciate? Or do you feel too close to the story and the family to really enjoy those? Some of them I can really appreciate. And it’s really the ones that are just sort of shocked faces saying, what?! what?! what?! Because I think that’s a lot of what I felt was important was that this family felt completely bombarded with all of these different things that were happening to them. So bombarded that they completely lost sight of their children, and I wanted the film to feel that way. I think that’s probably not far off from how these parents were feeling at the time that there was just so much stuff being thrown at them that they just had no idea what to do and how to feel. So I can certainly appreciate some of the memes that are out there, yeah, and maybe in a way sort of get a laugh out of it. It does provide a little bit of levity, which I can appreciate.
The CTA Blue Line experienced major delays for several hours until midday Friday after a “pretty lengthy section of third rail just fell over” near the Jefferson Park station during the morning commute, a CTA spokesman said.
Trains stood for a time near the Jefferson Park station after the incident...
There are currently two (two!!!) dueling documentaries right now about the disastrous Fyre Festival. Yesterday, just days before Netflix could drop their Fyre documentary directed by Chris Smith, Hulu decided to surprise drop their own called Fyre Fraud. How deliciously petty of them!
Terry Crews continues to be an example of healthy masculinity <3
Back in August, comedian D.L. Hughley decided it was a good idea to comment on Terry Crews’ allegations that he had been sexually assaulted by a former WME agent named Adam Venit, saying that Crews should’ve physically stopped Venit from grabbing him because “god gave you muscles so you could say ‘no’ and mean it.”…
Maroon 5 is headlining the Super Bowl LIII halftime show in Atlanta despite the fact nobody knows who they are. Sure, on a macro level we all have at least some understanding of the band, but outside of Adam Levine can you honestly say, without looking at your phone, that you can name a single other member of the band?
Let’s talk about the unwritten rules of being a baseball fan. They’re incredibly important. Wait, no, they’re silly. Incredibly silly. OK, both.
When I was a kid, I dreamt about this exact scenario. It was something that I plotted and planned, daydreamed about and wished for. I wanted to hit an opponent with a baseball as he rounded second base after a home run.
It’s not just an act of defiance, but it’s also an exhibition of your athletic talents on a grand stage. In my prime, I absolutely could have winged a ball from left field all the way to shortstop, and I would have relished the chance to show this off in front of thousands of people.
In retrospect, this was a dumb dream. I could have dreamt about winning an Oscar or crane-kicking a bully in a karate tournament, but I was stuck on that idea of drilling a guy who did what he was supposed to do. Doing this on purpose is rude and possibly illegal, and I can’t recommend it.
There’s a small part of me that still wants to do this, of course. Right in the butt, Cody Bellinger! Take that!
But what about the general idea of throwing an opponent’s home run back on the field? Is this or is this not a worthy goal? Well, we have unwritten rules to parse, it appears.
I understand it in a way. The opponent’s home run is tainted. It’s an unfortunate outcome breathed into life, and you’re holding it in your hands like a cursed skull. Out, damned spot, and all that.
Out of 20,000 people or more, you’ve been selected in this weird lottery to hold this totem of sadness. If your first instinct is to reject it, well, I can’t blame you. That seems like a reasonable response.
Just don’t expect your kid to understand.
Whittle that above sentence down a bit. Out of 20,000 people or more, you’ve been selected in this weird lottery ... and it’s awesome. If you’re a kid, it’s impossible to ignore the significance of this. All day, you’ve been seeing other people — other kids — excitedly hold baseballs in the air. Except that feeling isn’t just confined to this game. You’ve seen it for months, years. Even if you’re 10 years old, you probably have years of experience when it comes to other people getting excited about a foul ball or home run. Wouldn’t it be cool if it happened to you?
And then it happens to you. And then your dad tells you to get rid of the cursed baseball, to fling it with all your might.
Look at the proud papa! Look at the utterly confused child! Both reactions are valid, but I have to think the kid just wants the baseball. To roll it around in his hands. To realize that it was a part of the very game that he was just watching. To think that a Major League pitcher held it and threw it, and that a Major League hitter smashed it over the fence. Oh, the wonder of a home run ball.
No one is going to yell at you for letting your kid keep the ball. And it’s not as if you’re going to jinx the Reds. They’ll suck with or without your help.
There is value in superstition. There is a much more tangible value in letting your kid keep the baseball.
Rule #2: If you catch an opponent’s home run, just give it to a kid
A lot of the rules in this series have been ambiguous, which has lead to a whole bunch of tortured parsing on my part. Sorry. It’s what I do.
This is not an ambiguous rule, though. If you catch an opponent’s home run, just give it to a kid. Your kid, if applicable! Some other kid if not.
Rule #3: If you catch an opponent’s home run, just give it to a kid
There are few rules in life this uncomplicated. If you have the urge to wing the baseball back onto the field for a sense of satisfaction that will last exactly four seconds, think about the thrill that a kid will get from that baseball for the rest of the night. For the entire next day at school. It’s worth it.
Rule #4: If you catch an opponent’s home run, just give it to a kid
There will be pushback at first. There are a lot of goobers who are incredibly invested in the idea that everyone needs to hew to their unwritten dogma, and they will scream at anyone who is thinking about keeping the home run ball.
Once the ball is given to a kid, though, even those people shut up. Even at Wrigley Field, which is the peer-pressure-of-throwing-a-home-run-back capital of the world, they shut up. Just give it to a kid, and everyone understands.
Rule #5: If you catch an opponent’s home run, just give it to a kid
Do you know what happens to a home run ball when you throw it back? Either or a player or team employee retrieves the ball, and they toss it to the side. Another team employee picks it up and tosses it into the stands. Usually, they’ll give it to a kid.
You had a chance to light up a kid’s life, and you passed. You gave that gift to someone who’s just punching the clock and doing their job, and they probably did the same thing five times that month, so they didn’t even appreciate it. You could have been a hero. But you opted for five (5) cool points instead.
Note that cool points evaporate almost immediately. Now you are without cool points.
Hero points, though, why those stick with you. That’s the kind of karma that sticks to you, that buoys your every step, even after you’ve long forgotten what you did to get it. You were the lucky dork who happened to be closest to a baseball hit over the fence, and you were able to turn that into a happy child. They’ll need these memories when the crops fail and the water wars start.
Just give it to a kid.
Rule #6: If you catch an opponent’s home run, just give it to a kid, unless you’re reasonably sure that you can hit Giancarlo Stanton in the butt from the Green Monster
I kind of wish it had more whimsy. Its just a pretty nice Bucktown home.
Noted chef Grant Achatz on Friday sold his five-bedroom, 4,300-square-foot house in Bucktown for $1.3 million.
Achatz, 44, is known for his award-winning Lincoln Park restaurant Alinea, which continues to be one of only two Chicago restaurants garnering three stars in the Michelin restaurant guide.
PHOENIX (AP) — A nurse facing criminal charges in the rape of an incapacitated woman who later gave birth at a long-term care facility in Phoenix pleaded not guilty Tuesday.
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