Looks like people are now willing to kill in the name of internet memes.

On the other news, for my European friends, it seems far-right movements including UKIP made big gains across the front in the parliamentary elections. Opinions about this probably atrocious development?

Memorial Day weekend, when US citizens remember and thank those who have given service to the country and especially those who have died doing so. 

In addition, I wanted to add something I heard this morning from the mother of a veteran.  As we go through life we encounter people who have lost someone very close to them, the older we get the more this will happen.  Sometimes, out of good intentions, perhaps meaning to be polite, perhaps not wanting to make someone sad, we stop talking about the deceased loved one with the surviving family.  Again, I think often this is done with the best of intentions.

This mother said we should never feel we have to do that.  She said when friends and family would quite noticeably not mention her son, month after month, it felt to her like her son never existed to them.  She knew they were trying to be polite but it hurt her nonetheless.  Survivors want to hear about their loved ones on occasion, they want to hear someone else bring them up, mention some way they were touched by the person, or just tell a funny story.  They don't want to forget, and they don't want *you* to forget that the person existed. 

So next time you have a visit with someone who has lost someone very dear, consider using your voice and your passion to invoke their name and make the survivor smile.  You might make their day.  It was a different Memorial Day message and one I intend to act on with a couple people I know. 

^ Hadn't heard.   And that's terrible about the Glasgow art school

^ Sad news on such a grand architectural design.  Nobody hurt is a positive.

Maccabi Tel Aviv!!!!!! 

But some will say that that is absolute freedom and that this creates jobs. 

New lows in the treatment of workers....

The T wrote: Man With Hat wrote: This soccer thing will never appeal to me, but damn are there some fine stories out there about it. http://t.foxsports.msn.com/soccer/brazilian-team-punished-after-fan-killed-by-toilet-bowl-thrown-from-stands These guys are fit to be Philadelphia fans! Believe me, real football (soccer) fanatics are way more extreme and crazier than your average NFL fan...  (In fact though I don't reach those stupid levels I have been quite furious with friends over football (soccer) in the past)

Oh no doubt. This story proves it...and there are many more out there. I just wanted to take a jab at philly sports fans.

Man With Hat wrote: This soccer thing will never appeal to me, but damn are there some fine stories out there about it. http://t.foxsports.msn.com/soccer/brazilian-team-punished-after-fan-killed-by-toilet-bowl-thrown-from-stands These guys are fit to be Philadelphia fans!