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Wildfires have been ravaging the west coast for weeks. During that time, Trump golfed, held campaign rallies, and tweeted ad-nauseum. But, until this week, he found no time to even mention the devastation unfolding there. The fires have charred over 3.2 million acres and destroyed about 4,000 structures in California, killing at least 22 people. …… Read more.
Organizers hype the annual NCAA Division 1 Basketball Tournament as “March Madness.” They do so to exploit “the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat” inherent in low-seeded (a.k.a. Cinderella) teams upsetting top-seeded ones — often with buzzer-beating hail marys. Except that this year’s tournament hasn’t quite lived up to that hype. After all, the… Read more.
[Nine] people were killed and as many as [nine] were wounded Thursday in a shooting at a small community college in Roseburg, Oregon, according to multiple reports. Sheriff John Handlin said at a press conference Thursday afternoon that officers had ‘neutralized’ [aka killed] the shooter, who was male, during an exchange of gunfire in a… Read more.
