Barry was quite the accomplished marijuana enthusiast back in high school and college. Excerpts from David Maraniss’ Barack Obama: The Story dealing with the elaborate drug culture surrounding the president when he attended Punahou School in Honolulu and Occidental College in Los Angeles. He inhaled. A lot.
A heartbreaking photo essay on Evie, the transgender woman who looked after young Barack Obama, and the harsh realities of her shunned culture in Indonesia. Evie was hired by Ann Dunham, President Obama’s mother, to look after young Barry when they lived in Indonesia from 1967-1971. The lives of Evie and other transgender people in Jakarta are fraught with hardship.
A recently uncovered memo from the U.S. Immigration and Nationalization Service regarding President Obama’s father, written on October 31st, 1961, stating that “Barack Obama II” was born in Hawaii on October 4th, 1961. This obviously won’t persuade anyone who still questions the President’s nationality, but it should provide more grist for the oh-so-entertaining conspiracy mill. More on the document and its origins over at the Arizona Independent. View List ›
Staff at an aquarium in England have solved the mystery behind attacks on their coral reef and prize fish. The culprit was a giant sea worm named Barry (how they knew his name, I’m not sure), who is four feet long and is apparently “covered with nasty bristles that sting and can cause permanent numbness in humans”. This is what he looks like. View Image ›
