Hollywood super-producer Bob Evans said “Luck is when timing meets preparation.” If we follow Bob’s logic, then what is the recipe for profound misfortune? Is it still about timing, or is it about chaos? Is it that last moment when set plans change? What do we even call it? Broken lives converging on the unexpected. The torture and murder of Channon (pronounced “Shannon”) Christian (21) and Christopher Newsom (23) is the most horrific story I have ever read. This crime not only has some of the most brutal details I have read, but it also has this senselessness about it that makes the fact that it happened, almost unbearable.
How to Anglicise a Country: The Strange Story of Hawaii
In 1874, President Ulysses S. Grant hosted the first ever state visit to the United States by a foreign head of state. King David…