You may have seen this article floating around the interwebs about the decaying foot that popped out of a neighboring grave as the family of Cleveland Butler was burying him in his grave (pictured above).   A couple things: this doesn’t seem to be an Onion article, although that is exactly what I thought it […]

You’ve probably seen those utterly disturbing pictures of caskets floating downstream from the Louisiana Flood. It’s horrible.  The stuff of nightmares. You probably have some questions: Why do they float? Can those bodies be easily identified? Shouldn’t the vaults keep them contained in the ground? To the first question. There are a couple of kinds […]

  Just like the life cycle feeds off of death, so does the news cycle. Anything that has a degree of tragedy usually finds its way onto the national and/or international news. In principle, many of us realize that “if it makes the news, we don’t have to worry about it” (because the news is […]

  I admit it. I watched the video. Both videos. I watched the live feed that was broadcast on TV. And I watched the murderers’ video that he would later upload after he murdered Alison Parker and Adam Ward. Both videos were horrific. Both were extremely sad. After watching them, I found myself asking “why?”. […]

As a preface, let me say that I’m thankful to have transgender friends, who have graciously helped my vocab and have helped me to become more sensitive to the trans community.  And yet, I know I still have things to learn; so forgive me if I misstep in any of my verbiage. Here’s the story […]