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“El Jefe,” a jaguar last seen in Arizona nearly seven years ago, was spotted in the Mexican state of Sonora last year, researchers confirmed recently, reviving hopes that the species can thwart the border wall that bisects its natural habitat. Above: El Jefe in the Santa Rita Mountains in Arizona on April 30, 2015(AP). Below: El Jefe is seen in the central area of Sonora, Mexico in November 2021(AP). —The Washington Post, August 10, 2022 |
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Friday, August 12, 2022
TERRITORY
Thursday, August 11, 2022
SOMETHING ABOUT WOLVES IN LOUISVILLE
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
REBOUND
Tuesday, August 09, 2022
TEACH TO THE TEST
EXTENDED MAGS FOR KING GEORGE III
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Source: For the Sake of Arguments |
Monday, August 08, 2022
BULLETS
by Andrena Zawinski
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School's 1200 building has been sealed since the massacre on February 14, 2018. On Thursday, jurors in the sentencing phase of the school shooter's trial walked through the undisturbed scene, where the blood of the victims still stains classroom floors. Bullet holes also mark the walls of the Parkland, Florida, school where Nikolas Cruz killed 14 students and three staff members. A lock of dark hair remains on a floor more than four years after the body of a victim was taken away. Valentine's Day gifts and cards are strewn about, as shards of glass crunched beneath of the feet of visitors. These are the unsettling notes from a group of reporters allowed to enter the building after jurors completed their walk-through to provide details to media outlets across the country, including CNN. —CNN, August 5, 2022 |
Sunday, August 07, 2022
HAVE YOU ANY CLUES?
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today responded to the murder of another Albuquerque Muslim by a serial shooter who has allegedly been targeting Muslims for nine months by raising its reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible to $10,000. Photo: People spread dirt over Aftab Hussein's grave at Fairview Memorial Park in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Aug. 5, 2022. (The Albuquerque Journal via AP) |
KANSAS
Saturday, August 06, 2022
WE ARE ALL IN THE GUTTER, BUT SOME OF US ARE LOOKING AT THE STARS OF INFOWARS
Friday, August 05, 2022
ON ART, LINES & EARTH(LINGS)
HINT OF AN ELEGAIC SUMMER VOICE
Some say his dulcet tones
Soothed the raucous hard ballers.
Some say his mellifluous vocals
Quelled the rabid Dodgers horde.
Others say his soothing cache
Of insightful swag saved the day.
The wonderful horde of baseball
Lore and treasure allured us forever
the day he arrived in Brooklyn &
the era he shined in his city of angels.
We shall not hear again his storied
Trove of love for our nation’s game—
Our man with a voice for all seasons.
Earl Wilcox writes from his retirement balcony in upstate South Carolina. A collection of his poems—It Goes On, Life Poems—will be published in 2023.