[Lowell1775]

Dryly and morbidly amusing discussion of some of the ironic coincidences of the Boston Marathon bombing.

Knowing a few of them may get you a free beer in some bars for the telling....or get you thrown out of some others.

[muawiyah]

I usually refer to 'white folks' as 'white folks' ~ every now and then somebody will tell me that it is more correct to use 'caucasion'.

Actually most Europeans are not of any 'caucasion' ancestry at all ~ particularly the 'white folks' who live there.

I'm sure glad those days of critical comment on my choice of terms are over!

It's 'white folks'

[MarMema]

“George Orwell” said it took him thirty years to recover from having been named Eric. The effect of one’s name on one’s personality development has been much mused on, to no conclusions that I know of.

drunk tank pink - an incredibly facscinating book I am reading

This comes to mind because the elder Tsarnaev brother was named after Tamerlane, one of the baddest badasses in all of history.

But here is who the other one is named after, I believe. former president of Ichkeria

[Travis McGee]