After reading this tweet thread, you will never watch ‘Home Alone’ the same way again.

When you saw “Home Alone” for the first time as a kid, you probably just loved it as a thrill ride. You got to watch some kid go full on John Rambo and protect his home against the narrator from “The Wonder Years” and the unhinged guy from nearly every Scorsese film. To put it simply: …

Texas Man Gets 50 Years In Prison For Stealing $1.2 Million Worth Of Fajitas

To earn 50 years in prison, most of the time, one either has to kill someone, move a few kilos of drugs, or swindle rich people out of their money. But a man in Texas was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Friday, April 20, because he simply could not stop himself from stealing fajitas.  Employees …

Will 2019 see a Peace Process for the ELN rebels in Colombia?

ELN Guerrilla members. Image: cortesy of pacifista.tv Even though Colombia signed a peace deal with the FARC rebels in 2016, armed conflict in the country is not yet over. Another rebel group, the National Liberation Army (ELN – Ejército de Liberación Nacional, in Spanish), the country’s now-largest guerrilla organisation, is still alive and kicking. Since …

As the Spirit Moves, Part IV: Henry G. Takes to Verse

Originally published in the Post on May 22, 1920. And Mrs. Curley, who is always so agreeable about doing anything like that, did some of her original child im­personations, in her favorite selections, “Don’t Tell the Daisies I Tolded You, ‘Cause I Promised Them Not to Tell”; and “Little Girls Must Always Be Dressed up …

Middle East nightmare, made in Washington

Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, March 2018. Albin Lohr-Jones/Press Association. All rights reserved.Even under one of the most rhetorically aggressive leaderships that it has ever had, the United States maintains a rational approach in dealing with nuclear North Korea. Its plans for a meeting between the …

Rob Delaney shares a heartbreaking essay about his son’s death to help other parents of sick children. 

Last January, actor-writer-comedian Rob Delaney (“Catastrophe,” “Deadpool 2) lost his son, Henry, after a two-year battle with brain cancer. Henry was just two-and-a-half years old. During the painful ordeal, Delaney began writing a book about Henry’s illness to help other parents of sick children. He wanted to remind others that “someone understood and cared” about …

#EleccionesAbiertas2018: Earthquake in Brazil and Mexico, tremors in Colombia

Fake news, hate speech, and the consolidation of ‘outsider’ type candidates that pit themselves against traditional ways of doing politics were the elements that came together to produce the populist tendencies that have recently taken centre stage in Latin America.  The strong presidential character of Latin American political systems ensures that the personality of the …

Fired NFL cheerleader reveals the bizarre and sexist rules she had to follow.

Over the past few years, NFL cheerleaders have been standing up for themselves. Cheerleaders for the Oakland Raiders, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, New York Jets, Buffalo Bills, and Cincinnati Bengals have all sued over poor pay and requirements that they pay for their own makeup, uniforms, and transportation. Now, a former New Orleans Saints cheerleader is …