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div.fin_story_menu Story Photos Photos » ROSEBURG, Ore. – A man who rushed to try and stop the shooter on the Umpqua Community College campus Thursday is now recovering at the hospital. Army veteran Chris Mintz, 30, was shot 7 times when he tried to stop the gunman in Thursday’s mass shooting….
No amount of murder seems likely to result in gun control any time soon. So let’s do what we can to stop the lunacy—by reserving the limelight for the vet who rushed Thursday’s shooter. Think of Chris Mintz, who was shot while rushing a killer on his son’s sixth birthday. Forget the zero and remember…
A little while back, a woman—an ovulating professor from Germany—arrived in Maastricht, the Netherlands, to a neighborhood just beyond the city center, on the other side of the Maas River. She parked her car at a distance from her destination so as not to be recognized (she knows quite a few professors in Maastricht), and…
Fuck. Why are there so many fucking internet stars? Are you really supposed to refer to them as fucking “influencers,” like The New York Fucking Times does? Who the fuck are these fucking people? What the fuck is going on? Fuck. Okay. Okay. This is Tyler Fucking Oakley. He’s one of the biggest fucking YouTube…
SINCE I’VE BEENIN AMERICA A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE ASKED ME IF I’M HAVING A HARDTIME ADJUSTING TO LIVING IN THE COUNTRY, AND THE TRUTH IS, YES. SOME THINGS ARE HARDER TOUNDERSTAND THAN OTHERS. FOR INSTANCE, WHY DO YOU LET THEBABY LIONS ( BLEEP ) IN THE SANDBOX IN YOUR BATHROOMS? AND WHY DID YOU…
Rowan County, Ky., Clerk Kim Davis (left) reportedly met with Pope Francis during his visit to the United States last week. (Timothy D. Easley, Associated Press; Max Rossi/Reuters) Cameras were trained on Pope Francis even before his plane landed on Sept. 22 at Joint Base Andrews. They followed his every step in the United States…