Every once in a while, a story comes along that makes you stop and think, Wow… we’ve crossed a line we can’t uncross. This is one of those stories. South Korean police arrested four people for hacking more than 120,000 home and business cameras. That number itself is disturbing. What…
Tag: Don MacLeod commentary
Crime
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The World Is Asking One Question-Who Leaves Their Girlfriend on a Mountain?!
Some stories make you sigh. Others make you swear under your breath. Then there’s this one — the kind that crawls inside your chest and sits there like a block of ice. A 33-year-old woman froze to death just short of the Grossglockner summit, Austria’s highest peak. And I know…
Holidays
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How I Learned Thanksgiving Eve Is America’s Big Drinking Night (the Hard Way)
Nobody ever warned me about the night before Thanksgiving. Not the way they warn you about New Year’s Eve or St. Patrick’s Day. There was no nickname, no folklore, no “pace yourself, kid.” Back then, I had no idea Thanksgiving Eve was America’s biggest drinking night — “Blackout Wednesday,” as…
Culture
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Holiday Travel Chaos Hits New High With Mile-High Meltdown
Thanksgiving week is already the busiest, most patience-draining travel stretch of the year. People are packed into airports like they’re waiting for free Beyoncé tickets. Lines everywhere. Tension everywhere. Delays everywhere. And that’s before you factor in the one person who decides to turn a routine inconvenience into a Broadway…
Humor
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Turns Out Monkeys, Wolves, and Polar Bears Were Kissing Before We Existed
There’s nothing like waking up to a BBC headline that basically says, “Hey humans, you’re not special — monkeys did it first.” Scientists now believe the first mouth-on-mouth kiss goes back 21.5 million years, long before humans, before Neanderthals, before whoever invented the first scented candle. And get this: they…
Crime
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The Fake Attack Story So Bonkers I Had to Read It Twice
There are bad decisions. There are regrettable decisions. And then there’s the “I hired a scarification artist to carve me up so I could report a violent political hate crime” decision — which is its own category somewhere between Maury Povich and unemployment line. I read the DOJ release like…