Heartwarming and heartbreaking

Heartwarming: The Associated Press reports on the wonderful news of a Chinese woman who had been trapped for 50 hours in earthquake rubble last month just gave birth this week to a bouncing healthy baby girl. It wasn’t a premature baby, either - in fact, the mom was 8 months pregnant when she was trapped underneath that rubble. It’s a miracle the baby was born with no health issues. By the way, I won’t quote from the AP story directly, considering I don’t know how much they’d charge me for it. Heartbreaking: A two-year old boy was beaten to death on the side of the road by his 27 year-old “father” Saturday night in Turlock, CA. At least six others, including a volunteer firefighter, witnessed the beating but did not step in to stop the deadly attack (via MM). Some tried to “talk” him out of it, but no one physically... [read full story]