An Afghan girl pops an Ollie as youths gather for the Sound Central Festival in Kabul. (Photo: Massoud Hossaini / AFP-Getty via The Guardian)
Carlos Arredondo, who lost both sons in the past decade and is haunted again by flashbacks from witnessing the Boston bombing, has been healing together with the man whose life he helped save.
I’ve been following news about Jeff and Carlos since the day of the tragedy. I think it’s stories like this one that are helping us to heal and showing us that human compassion, strength, and resilience will always unite us to overcome the evils that seek to drive us apart.
I suggest all females watch this.
*i suggest all humans watch this.
THIS SHOULD BE REQUIRED WATCHING FOR ALL HUMANS
I’m a 17 year old white guy living in middle class America. I’ve never exactly been a supporter of feminism because that kind of thing has never really affected me personally. I don’t notice it and I don’t care about it. But in nine minutes this video has made what is truly a serious problem extremely apparent. Those “why I need feminism” posts or those slut-shaming or rape culture campaigns never convince me of anything. But this video actually did I think.
tl;dr This video kicks ass, just watch it.
i rewatched this and i’m still really mad this is really important
Margaret Cho said it:
I DON’T KNOW HOW WE SURVIVE THIS.(perhaps it’s secretly because we are the stronger ones.)
THIS IS SO INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT.
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Cowboy Hat Hero Reunites With Bombing Victim
An enduring image from last week’s bombing at the Boston Marathon features Carlos Arredondo in a cowboy hat rushing a victim, Jeff Bauman, to safety after suffering a gruesome injury. The two were reunited a week after the bombings at the Boston Medical Center.
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Jeff Bauman, who lost his legs due to the Boston bombings and who later helped identify the suspects, hands an 18th birthday present to Sydney Corcoran, who was also hurt in the blasts. Bauman was the subject of one of the iconic news photos taken that day. (Photo: Corcoran Family via Facebook / The New York Daily News)
To anyone who’d like to support these brave survivors, you can donate at:
http://www.gofundme.com/BucksforBauman
Stephen Colbert addressing the Boston Marathon with a masterful mix of sincerity and satire.
@michaelhayes A message from New York to Boston projected on Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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Boston. Fucking horrible.
I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, “Well, I’ve had it with humanity.”
But I was wrong. I don’t know what’s going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.
But here’s what I DO know. If it’s one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we’re lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they’re pointed towards darkness.
But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We’d have eaten ourselves alive long ago.
So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, “The good outnumber you, and we always will.
"— Patton Oswalt (on Facebook)
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