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I'm a dad. I try to live a moral life.

At this instant in 1945 (8:15 AM August 6, local time), Little Boy—a 15-kiloton, uranium-fueled atomic bomb—destroyed Hiroshima, killing (per official US military estimates) ~70,000 men, women, and children, incl. 12 American POWs. Independent estimates later maintained ~140,000 people were killed.

A color photograph of a damaged Iras wristwatch with a leather band on display in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, its hands frozen at 8:15 AM.A photograph of a shadow of a person living in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, who was killed as they climbed the steps of the Sumitomo Bank building while using a cane, leaving behind only their shadow imprinted on the steps (because their body and cane momentarily blocked the light from the intense thermal flash, burning away everything on the steps that was not in shadow).A color photograph of a damaged and partially melted child’s tricycle on display in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. On the morning of August 6, 1945, Shinichi Tetsutani, who was one month shy of turning four years old, was riding this tricycle, playing with his best friend, a girl named Kimi, 1,500 meters away from where the Little Boy atomic bomb exploded overhead. When found in the wreckage of his house, he was still grasping the red handlebar grip from his tricycle. Severely injured and burned all over his body, calling out, “Water, I want water,” he died that night. Shinichi’s father buried him in the backyard with his favorite toy, and his best friend Kimi, so he could ride it and play even after death. Forty years later, in 1985, Shinichi’s father, Nobuo, decided to rebury his son in the family’s gravesite. Unearthing the backyard grave with Kimi’s mother, Nobuo rediscovered the tricycle and donated it to the museum.

My Foundation TV series take: great show that is a terrible adaptation of a great book that is terribly written.

Tell me about it. Three years of getting my ass handed to me At the time I was trying to get Fox to cast pre-famous Peter Dinklage as The Mule, I’d loved him in THE STATION AGENT.

The cover page to a screenplay with the title FOUNDATION, underneath is typed, in descending lines Written by John Rogers, Based upon the novels Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Instead of spending at least $50 billion of public money on fueling more climate chaos, Canadians deserve a government that invests in building the green economy of tomorrow – creating good jobs, lowering costs, and protecting our future.

Capitol One shut down 300 accounts belonging to Trump because they were flagged for potential money laundering. That was 2021. Imagine if this were Biden. How would America react? But yes "liberal media."

Some #CanPL stories from the last few weeks After Gustavo Leal's debut as Atlético Ottawa manager, I dove into what we learned from his style of play, and how he's looking to tweak an Ottawa side who won the 2025 North Star Cup but has since suffered some key departures onesoccer.ca/a/what-did-w...

What did we learn from Gustavo Leal’s Atlético Ottawa managerial debut?

What did we learn from Gustavo Leal’s Atlético Ottawa managerial debut?

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"Look, I’m not claiming that Gothbag the Terrible was perfect. He was only human. He made some questionable decisions. I don’t think hunting every man, woman, and child for sport on the Isle of Skye was a good idea. But you have to remember it was a different time."

We Must Not Destroy Our History by Tearing Down Statues of Great Men Like Gothbag the Terrible

“If we tear down the statue of him standing athwart the crushed bodies of his foes and drinking their blood from a skull, how will we ever remember all the g...

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