Wednesday July 30, 2014

"According to recordings of the teen's police interrogation, the boy mocked the attacks on the Boston Marathon and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut as 'pretty lame' and 'pathetic' and said he idolized one of the Columbine gunmen.
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"However, his father told reporters that he does not believe his son would have carried out the plan and that there were no signs the teen was troubled."
Minnesota Daily (U of MN student paper; weekly during summer), July 30-August 5, page 2.

More on Minnesota police matters.  From the Star Tribune Police Blotter, from Chanhassen:  "Someone called to report a turtle in their yard in the 8400 block of Stone Creek Drive."

***The August issue of Glamour had a good article on friendship.

They also had a couple of fashion Do and Don't lists with pictures.  I mostly preferred the Don'ts to the Dos.

Years ago, I was diagnosed with ADD/ADHD.

Tuesday, a doctor said I don't have ADD.   I have depression, plus some symptoms from my cerebral palsy.

This calls for a good deal of rethinking, to put it mildly.

Washington Post: "No, the United States isn't trying to build a military force of centenarians. It just seems that way after the Selective Service System mistakenly sent notices to more than 14,000 Pennsylvania men born between 1893 and 1897, ordering them to register for the nation's military draft and warning that failure to do so is 'punishable by a fine and imprisonment.'"

politicalwire.com, July 11