• http://www.artofmanliness.com, Marcus Brotherton
How unexpected—and yet not—this late night phone call from Shannon, the wife of my close friend Paul. "Come to the hospital," Shannon said. "Come say goodbye to your friend."
"I want to live. I wish there was a cure for my disease but there's not." Diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, Maynard has moved with her family to Oregon so she can legally kill herself with lethal medication.
The answer lies in human psychology. And probably like the old observation about history, people who refuse to understand human psychology are doomed to be victims of psychological manipulation.
What are the odds? I mean, Ebola outbreaks don't just happen every day. While it could be completely coincidental, this Ebola strain happens to be spreading just as fast as the West African outbreak. The first confirmed death in Congo occurred on Aug
Joan Rivers, the raucous, acid-tongued comedian who crashed the male-dominated realm of late-night talk shows and turned Hollywood red carpets into danger zones for badly dressed celebrities, died Thursday.
An investigation into the cause of the death is underway, but "the Sheriff's Office Coroner Division suspects the death to be a suicide due to asphyxia."
More children than Palestinian fighters are being killed in Israel's offensive on Gaza, according to the UN. Shown here are the name, age, and sex of 132 of those children, recorded by the Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights
After two weeks of violence between Israel and Hamas, the death toll has passed 500. At least 496 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli air and ground strikes, including 100 children, and more than 3,000 have been wounded.
"She started an organization in 1976 called Libertarians for Life. Most libertarians are pro choice, so hers was a lonely calling within the libertarian movement." Walter Block
A veteran who collapsed in an Albuquerque Veteran Affairs hospital cafeteria - 500 yards from the emergency room - died after waiting 30 minutes for an ambulance, officials confirmed Thursday.
A strong storm system moved through the city Wednesday evening and made several streets nearly impassable. Pedestrians by the Brooklyn Bridge were hit by stones tumbling from a ramp wall
Clinton Inabnitt was a regular at the convenience store in the center of this small town, known for complaining that the police were conspiring against him and telling nonsensical stories while he fixed his breakfast.
Anne Leitrim, who was in her 70s, hadn't been seen since 2008
Her neighbours in Bournemouth assumed that she had moved house
In fact her body was inside her home and was discovered by bailiffs
At the heart of the last financial crisis, some compared CDS to buying home insurance on a neighbor's home and burning it down; it appears the USA has come a long way in the last few years.
The Obama administration justified using drones to kill Americans suspected of terrorism overseas by citing the war against al-Qaida and by saying a surprise attack against an American in a foreign land would not violate the laws of war, ..
Stephanie L. Kwolek, a DuPont chemist who invented the technology behind Kevlar, a virtually bulletproof fiber that has saved thousands of lives, died on Wednesday in Wilmington, Del. She was 90.
In pop culture, Casey Kasem was as sweet and dependable as a glass of warm milk and a plate of chocolate chip cookies, which only made the ugliness of his last few years of life seem more bizarre and tragic.
Five American special operations troops were killed by a U.S. airstrike called in to help them after they were ambushed by the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, in one of the deadliest friendly fire incidents in nearly 14 years of war, officials said