Guess That News Story

Have you ever seen a picture on the front of a newspaper and tried to guess what the story was?  Probably not.  But then, we don’t all aspire to creative greatness.  My apologies if you can never retrieve the next five minutes of your life, but let’s be honest:  it was either this or BuzzFeed, and we both know you don’t need to spend any more time reminiscing about 90s icons or learning 14 reasons why whipped cream is so atrocious.  So here we go – you can click on the picture to see a link to the real news story.  Let me know how close I got!

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Turn the News Back On

In the movie Blood Diamond, Leonardo DeCaprio plays a diamond smuggler in the bloody, war-torn terrain of Sierra Leone. When his American journalist/romantic interest counterpart asks how and why so much unconscionable violence – rape of women, mutilation of children, abduction of children as child soldiers – can arise in this part of the world, Leo coolly responds, “T.I.A. This Is Africa.”

That’s the attitude: Don’t try and figure it out, just accept it and move on. Continue reading