Considering the depravity of the past few days, I thought this would be a good time for an update.

The featured image is the view tonight looking south from my backyard in Rhode Island. A hopeful sign.

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Not for nothing, there is life after Amazon.

Walmart.com isn’t quite up to Amazon’s website ease of use, depth of user reviews, or breadth of product, but it’s getting a lot better. And the price is the price and the shipping (or free shipping) is what it is. Do a test at...

I was in Durham, NC, earlier this week, where my wife received treatment from doctors at Duke Medical Center.

With plenty of time to spare, it occurred to me that I should get a selfie at the Duke Lacrosse house to post on the website. While the 2006 prosecution and April 2007...

Last weekend I traveled to Roslyn, NY, on Long Island, for my 40th high school reunion.

No high school experience is perfect, but Roslyn and Roslyn High School in the 1970s were great places to grow up. I’ve mentioned Roslyn in passing before, in my post when Richie Havens died, how I...

As a safety professional, one of the most chilling books in my job-based collection is Death in Yellowstone.

The work...

I doubt these fellas were expecting a whoopin’ when they decided to carjack this gal.

While this Mom was pumping gas, a would-be carjacker hopped into the driver seat and the other began beating on the window with a gun. And then this Mom got ahold of them both:

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Though it’s seemingly impossible to discuss the tragic tale of Cecil the lion without invoking a comparison war, there is an entire part of this story that those with their hair ablaze forgot to consider — what do Zimbabwean’s think?

It appears I’m not the only one pondering the African perspective.

As this...

You might need the Kleenex for this one.

An eight-year-old boy is the first pediatric recipient of a double hand transplant. When he was only two-years-old, a life threatening infection lead to the amputation of both hands and feet. He also received a kidney transplant from his mother.

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To put it mildly, the internet is in an uproar over the killing in Zimbabwe of Cecil the Lion by a dentist from Minnesota on safari.

Cecil was a beautiful animal.

I understand that trophy hunting, when done legally, helps support local conservation efforts and local communities in Africa. It may seem counter-intuitive,...

What’s the first thing that comes to mind?

For me, it’s ….

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AMAZING VIDEO: Cat saves boy from dog attack in Southwest Bakersfield

A cat came to her best friend’s rescue Tuesday when a young boy was attacked by a dog in his driveway in Southwest Bakersfield and it was all caught on video.

The surveillance video shows the boy, 4-year-old Jeremy, playing on his...

My wife and I were talking about him not long ago.  For each of us, his disappearance left an indelible mark.  Whenever there was a report of a missing child, we inevitably said, I wonder what happened to Etan Patz.

Seeing this headline...

Jake Tapper wrote a column for the Washington City Paper titled “I dated ______].”  Guess which girl Jake almost took home to mama?

Don’t click on the link until after you vote.  (open until midnight, Eastern, tonight)

(h/t for the article to James Joyner on Twitter...

And we try to deal with as much of it as we can here at Legal Insurrection.

In fact, in the coming week there will be a couple of law students to help me — between semesters — cover the Iowa caucuses, New Hampshire, and other campaingn-related stuff.

But first, want to...

We don’t get many shots at the Big Leagues, and even fewer at professional sports stardom.

So when the Hebrew Hammer has problems, it’s Bad for The Jews.

As reported at JSOnline, Braun drug test positive:

Did Ryan Braun cheat to become the 2011 National League most valuable player or is he the innocent...

Repeal of sodomy, bestiality ban sparks fight on Defense bill:

As the final Defense authorization bill gets hammered out in conference committee, one surprising issue is riling both social conservatives and animal rights activists:...

Story in NY Magazine about a longevity study of Askenazi Jews (h/t DINORightMarie at the Tip Line):

An Einstein study published in August asked whether the SuperAgers, over the course of their lives, had better health habits than the general population.

The answer was no; their habits were, if anything, w...