Reason #56,987 Why I Don’t Do Bank of America

Because of stories like the one below.
(Written by one of my friends and fellow journalism grads!) Random shout out over.
By Robbyn Mitchell, St. Petersburg Times
TAMPA — Steve Valdez used one of his prosthetic arms to slip a check to the teller at Bank of America downtown.
“She said, ‘Obviously you aren’t going to be able to [...]

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Why Are People Bringing Guns to Town Hall Meetings?

The presence of guns has entered the health care debate. This could easily get out of hand. And what’s crazy, is so far, the media is acting like this is OK. How do health care reform and gun rights correlate? This is disturbing in so many ways and shouldn’t just be seen as people exercising [...]

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Hotel Claims Rape Victim Negligent

When I first read this story I had to reread it a few times just to make sure the Marriott in downtown Stamford, Conn., is really blaming a woman for getting raped on the hotel’s property. But it wasn’t a misread.
From the Connecticut Post:

STAMFORD — A downtown hotel being sued by a woman raped [...]

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Health Care Gets Hot

In the week since the House began its break, several town hall-style meetings have been disrupted by demonstrators. These episodes have drawn widespread media attention, and Republicans have seized on them as well as polls showing a decline in support for Obama and his agenda as evidence that public support is lacking for his signature [...]

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Teens in Dunbar Village Gang Rape Head to Trial

After two years, four teen suspects in the Dunbar Village gang rape of a mother and her son will finally go to trial.
According to police, a group of armed, masked intruders broke into the woman’s Dunbar Village apartment, forcing her and her son, then 12, into sex acts.
Afterward the attackers took pains to cover their tracks, pouring [...]

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Horrible People Alert: Cemetery Workers Unearth Bodies

I have no words for how horrible this story is. I’m always shocked at how cruel people can be, but this is just on a whole other level.

From AFP:
Grave robbers stripped at least 300 plots at a historic black cemetery outside Chicago, dumped many of the bodies and then resold the plots for a profit, [...]

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Don’t Believe The Hype: There’s No Post-racial/Colorblind America ‘Round Here

Update 1: It looks like another pool has opened its doors to this children’s day camp.
Update 2: Now that the story has created a media stir, suddenly the swim club wants to re-invite the day camp back to their pool.
“The board decided we would reach out to Creative Steps to . . . get the [...]

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My Opinion on the Holocaust Museum Shooting and Recent Spike in Domestic Terrorism

And I told myself I was going to keep it light this week on the blog. Had to break the promise. I will probably come back to this topic in a more in-depth form later.
A rifle-wielding white supremacist entered Washington’s Holocaust museum on Wednesday afternoon, fatally shooting a security guard before being wounded himself by [...]

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People Who Should Not Reproduce: Camilla Fields and Stacey Cleaves

Stacey Cleaves

Camilla Fields

All I can do is shake my head at this story:
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Police have now charged the mother of the 2 month old thrown during last week’s shocking shoplifting incident at Wal-Mart in Raleigh. They believe the young mom may have allowed her baby to be used as cover-up to steal.
“It’s just [...]

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Keepin’ It Random

Swine Flu: On Monday, a CNN headline read: “OK, Can We Panic Now?”
Ummm, should you really be trying to cause panic CNN? I have to give the network a Stephen Colbert-style Wag of the Finger for this. Remember the Bird Flu and SARS? Not that this situation couldn’t become a serious worldwide pandemic, but [...]

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