Scoop’s Views

For O.J. Simpson, the latest blow may be one of the most humiliating for former public figures. It’s one that clearly knocks him off any possible remaining pedestal.

If you’re a thief in Bal Harbour, Florida, you may want to give second thoughts to that stealing habit, as the cops may be able to track your every step without you knowing it. For some, such as the Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, the Holy family in Christian circles, at least, they are getting tagged with GPS trackers to protect themselves.

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Kevin Logan wanted to go to his Gary, Indiana, high school prom last year, but when he showed up at the door in a pink dress, West Side High School officials told him to nix the dress or go home.

A pal of many years from what some consider the backwoods of Illinois, PapaGrizz, sent me an email with yet another item added to the list of Chinese-made toys being recalled. Here’s the most current addition to the list of Chinese toys being recalled in the United States.

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People often say, “It’s all a matter of perspective,” but many times when other say it, it is because you are going through a rough time.

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Any community operating under Home Rule works within specific parameters: that it is working pretty much independent of many laws that govern other areas of the state, though it is still part of the state. When it comes to gambling within a city, that city — and its residents, especially those who will be directly impacted, ought have a very large say in location, as well as the decision whether gambling is appropriate.

Philadelphia police officers were trained for much of what they could expect - and as it turned out — much of what was done to them during the convention. They were hit, spit on, cursed at, insulted, mocked, and even had a form of acid doused on a female cop.

A British teacher, Gillian Gibbons, went to teach this year at a school in Sudan that has, for almost 100 years, been run along the lines of Christianity. Not long after the school year began, Gibbons was arrested and charged with “insulting Islam’s Prophet Mohammed.”

When Gibbons went to teach at Unity, which is but one of several British schools in the country, she taught in classrooms hidden behind tall brick walls that shut out, what one news outlet described as the dust of everyday Sudanese life. The walls serve another purpose, according to various media reports, which say it serves to transport visitors into the shady courtyard of an Oxford or a Cambridge University-type setting or that of an English private school.