Dude gets monster record wave
http://www.weather.com/news/record-wave 

The record-keeping agency is acknowledging a 44-year-old Hawaii pro surfer for catching a 78-foot wave off the coast of Portugal, saying the November run beats a 2008 record by more than 1 foot. McNamara said he didn't care at first about whether the wave was a record, but was urged by the townspeople in Nazare, Portugal, to get some kind of confirmation. He said he sent the footage and pictures to surfing legend and Billabong judge Sean Collins, who guessed the wave was 85 to 90 feet tall. Collins died in December.

crazy.

Eugenics
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rubin-eugenics-mothers-day-20120513,0,4681748.story

This is an op-ed story by Nilmini Gunaratne Rubin about how Eugenics was used on her mom when she was born. Eugenics is where they tried to 'sterilize' the country by illegally taking out women's uterus's after a birth if they didn't fit the 'blonde hair, blue eyed' expectancy. I think this is so messed up. I agree with the article that it's messed.

Stealing from the poor
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ehrenreich-stealing-from-the-poor-20120517,0,7201749.story

This is an op-ed column with no writer, but it's about how the government wants to help poor people but they're really stealing from them. What with taxes and late fees being so high, it's especially for the poor the higher paid people know they're pretty much stealing and keep doing it. This is messed.

Who can comment on motherhood?
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-romney-mommy-wars-20120425,0,5544240.story

This was a reply column written by Meghan Daum. It was about how she wrote a column about how motherhood isn't the hardest job and she was completely attacked by people calling her stupid for trying to state that when she doesn't even have kids. I think it's completely ridiculous, I don't even think that that's true and people shouldn't call her names for having an opinion.

Contrasting the candidates: Same-Sex marriage
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-contrasting-candidates-20120515,0,275962.story

This is an opinion article in the LA Times by Dan Turner who writes about Obama and Romney supporting gay marriage. Though he never really states his opinion, he talks about how Obama is flip flopping on his view on gay marriage and Romney has stuck with being against it. I don't think it should even matter. I mean if Obama wants to be okay with it for more votes, let him. I want to be alive for this major turn of events in history.

Storm Watch discontinued until Fall

http://www.weather.com/newscenter/stormwatch/

 

Storm watch is discontued until fall. That's so exciting, it means we might actually have a summer!

Fire triples in size
http://www.weather.com/news/arizona-wildfires-20120514?jQuery1337269779831=10

 

The fire in the Prescott National Forest grew to an estimated 5,400 acres, or nearly 8 1/2 square miles, Wednesday night - up from about 2,000 acres a day earlier.

High winds have helped fan the flames, and fire officials were expecting much of the same conditions for the next couple of days.

Most of Crown King's 350 residents had already evacuated their homes before Taryn Denyce finally left earlier Wednesday, feeling she had no other choice

This is so crazy!