So there we were, sitting at this news conference, listening to the new football coach the Detroit Lions had hired, and he was saying some funny things and we were laughing and at one point I turned to a friend of mine and casually whispered, "How old is this guy?""Thirty-eight," my friend said."Thirty-eight?"I stopped laughing.
Good news, Curt. This year, in deference to the grueling presidential election we just endured, I will not engage in the politics of personal destruction -- even though you personally have been referred to as a Swinging Chad.No, sir. I will not tell people that your Super Bowl predictions are normally as reliable as airport soup.Or that your idea of research during Super Bowl week is seeing just how carefully that "six-foot" rule is enforced in Tampa.
He didn't do it.That didn't stop police from interrogating him for 12 hours, screaming questions, denying him a lawyer, holding a gun to his head, telling him he should fess up because otherwise he was going to "get the needle," the death penalty, dead man walking, because, after all, he raped that girl at the Pizza Hut, he murdered that girl, this is how he did it, isn't it? Isn't it? ISN'T IT? If you sign this confession, it'll be easier on you....
Jenna Franklin wanted a birthday present. She asked her parents. They said OK.Jenna was about to turn 16.She wanted new breasts."You've got to have breasts to be successful," she told a British tabloid.Her mother, who already had breast enlargement, liposuction, a nose job and a cheek job, agreed."There are so many young girls who are depressed about the way they look," she said, "if you can do something about it, that's great."
Mitch Albom writes about running an orphanage in impoverished Port-au-Prince, Haiti, his kids, their hardships, laughs and challenges, and the life lessons he’s learned there every day.
