This month's issue of Elle contains a profile of WNBA player Brittney Griner made me fall in love with her a little bit. And it will probably make you fall a little in love with her, too.
When Dorothy "Dot" Lewis, a former Women's Airforce Service Pilot in World War II, passed away this September, her son wanted to do something special to honor her and the other 1,073 WASPs. What better way to honor such an important but largely forgotten aspect of the US Military than with the US's most historic…
Eeeeee! There's almost nothing I love more than a totally ineffectual power-flounce, when someone announces that they're taking their ball and going home in order to "punish" people who didn't even want to play with them in the first place. And today's big flounce is even better than usual—actor, comedian, and noted …
In the wake of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School last December, NRA head Wayne LaPierre famously quipped that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. I guess no one told Antoinette Tuff, who just yesterday prevented a standoff with a gunman from turning into another…
To coincide with the tribute to U.S. Astronaut Sally Ride's life that occured at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in D.C. last night, President Obama has awarded Ride — the first American woman to ever make the voyage into space — with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The honor was bestowed…
Today in FINALLY, SOMETHING NICE HAPPENED: Twenty Florida high school seniors were prom-bound in their limousine when they saw a van hit the highway median and flip over. Feeling the clarion call of heroism, the teens unstrapped their cummerbunds, tossed aside their Jessica McClintock boleros, and leapt from the…
Victoria Roman, a trash collecter in NYC, was doing her job last week when she noticed a garbage bag move. Seeing as that was very weird, Roman opened the bag to find month old delivery food that had come to life. JK, it was way worse, a tiny Shih Tzu in very bad condition — her eyes were matted-shut and her toenails…
On Saturday, a secret service Belgian Malinois died while working to protect Vice President Biden in New Orleans. They were doing an explosives sweep of the parking garage adjacent to the Ritz-Carlton when the dog fell from the sixth floor to his death.
By this point, it should be pretty obvious that Mitt Romney has the most hapless and mendacious
Carlie and Lacey Parga, ages 5 and 8, were walking their dog Lucy, when she (much bigger and stronger than they) caught a scent in the woods and pulled them off the path. The girls were gone for two hours when their dad and neighbors began searching fruitlessly for them.
When tragedy strikes, I stay up all night reading the news. The only way I know how to process incomprehensible events like the Dark Night Rises shooting in Aurora is by absorbing all the details, the more heart-wrenching and/or disturbing, the better. So far, the story that's stuck with me the most isn't the one…
In a recently released clip from BURN, a documentary following a year in the Detroit Fire Department, firefighters rush to save two dogs from a burning home while the distressed owner is forced to stand by. The outcome looks bleak when the dogs are finally removed from the house — both, one only a puppy, are…
I try ignore the whole "real life superhero" trend, because it seems pretty clear that they aren't really concerned with fighting crime so much as fighting not-getting-enough-attention. At the newspaper I used to work for in Seattle we would get spammed constantly with "tips" about these people—when pretty much the only …
When the driver of his school bus started shaking and "acting all funny," 13-year-old Jeremy Wuitschick of Milton, WA (south King County! Woooooo!) jumped into action. As you can see in this fucking awesome security video, the 7th-grader grabbed the wheel and brought the careening school bus to a stop while other…
Look out, Captain Sully Sullenberger. Watch your back, Carol from 30 Rock. There's a new hero pilot in town, and he's gunning for our hearts. You probably heard that earlier this week, the pilot of a JetBlue flight went crazy mid-flight
Seven-year-old Floridian Rita Lawlor was given an award by the Sarasota County Fire Department for her bravery and composure in the face of what would be a terrifying situation for anyone— her mother wouldn't wake up, even when slapped across the face with a piece of pizza. Master Shredder would be so pleased.
If you only caught a quick glimpse of the commercials for CNN's Hero of the Year starring silver fox Anderson Cooper, you might have assumed it was the type of end of year wrap up that that could go to Kim Kardashian for her courageous decisions regarding marriage, Lindsay Lohan for her efforts to keep Marilyn Monroe's …
I'm just going to get this out of the way and say it: Sue Shefman is my hero. If you don't know her by now, you will soon: the weekend edition of ABC's World News Tonight featured a piece on Suefman and her extreme love of the hippopotamus and odds are high that TLC is already banging down this woman's door to give…
Today in awesome: a young woman saved a little boy from a charging grizzly using only her courage and that of her trusty horse.
A potential tragedy had a happy ending thanks to the heroism of Antonio Diaz Chacon, a 24-year-old mechanic and father of two young girls. On Monday afternoon in Albuquerque, Diaz Chacon saw a man pull a girl into his van as a neighbor yelled at him to let her go. Diaz Chacon immediately jumped in his black pickup and…
When 12-year-old Charles "Dale" Ostrander began to drown in a riptide off the coast of Washington state, the first person to come to his rescue was Nicole Kissel, only twelve years old herself.
Today's heroic duo is Chicago resident Agustin Zamora Jr. and his pal Scooby, a 160-pound Great Dane, who helped nab a man suspected of attacking a 14-year-old girl. The suspect's been charged with attempted criminal sexual assault. Nice work, guys!
Of the many astonishing, alternately horrifying and inspiring things that Liberian women's rights activist Leymah Gbowee said at breakfast this morning, there was the story of her taking off her clothes to prevent her arrest.
Only a person with a heart of stone could fail to weep at Oprah's Roger Ebert segment today, particularly when it came to the love between the veteran film critic and his wife, Chaz.
The new trailer for Kick Ass, based on the comic of the same name, just hit the web and has fans giddy over the possibilities. Then again, it's written by Mark Millar, the same guy who did Wanted.
[Los Angeles, November 29. Image via Pacific Coast News Online.]
