How many people do you know who have been shot?
Portraits by Matt Girard for The Washington Post
Wow.
Source: Washington Post
Today you can see that I am alive. I can speak, I can see you, I can see everyone. It’s just because of the prayers of people. Because all people — men, women, children — all of them have prayed for me. And because of all these prayers God has given me this new life . a second life. And I want to serve. I want to serve the people. I want every girl, every child, to be educated.
15-year-old Pakistani MALALA YOUSUFZAI, an outspoken advocate for girls’ rights who was shot in the head by the Taliban.
I can’t think of a better way to tell the Taliban to go fuck themselves.
Armands Škele Estonia’s BC Kalev/Cramo makes the most impossible basketball shot probably ever (via)
On This Date in 1981…
Suddenly, like a nightmare in instant replay, it was going on again: the faceless, rootless loner with a pistol and a lunatic mission washed up within shooting distance of the American Presidency and the American dream. Yet again, television screens burned with the sickening imagery of assassination—Ronald Reagan walking and waving through a misty Washington rain, a Saturday night special pop-popping bullets out of a crowd, the bodies of White House press secretary James Brady and two lawmen blown hurt and bleeding to the sidewalk, the Secret Service slamming a stunned and wounded President into his limousine and racing against death to a hospital. The news this time was good for Reagan and the others, and the omens for their recovery were favorable. The most grievous wound of all was struck to the soul of a nation—the discovery that its public life is not yet safe from the fantasies of madmen or the shadow of the gun.
Newsweek April 13, 1981
Mike
