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Burke O’Connell had the words “Super Bowl 50” and “Champs” tattooed on his calf along with his team’s logo. Unfortunately, he got the celebratory tattoo two days before his team, the New England Patriots lost to the Denver Broncos for the AFC Championship title. There would be no Super Bowl for the Patriots.…

“The Gulf of Mexico is not the only place blowout preventers fail,” according to Jeffrey Kluger in Time Magazine. Time, July 5, 2010, p. 13 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell That is certainly the truth. We all need a blowout preventer on our temper. Sometimes they fail under stress. Our…

ANGER Robert Caton apparently had had a little too much to drink. Employees at the Tesco store in Andover, England refused to sell him anymore. The agitated Caton simply returned to his Rolls Royce and drove it through the front window crashing into the store and injuring six people. -- World Magazine,…

PATIENCE Don’t ask China’s sixty-six year old Lian Jiansheng, for compassion. Lian was an observer at a possible suicide jumper event in the city of Guangzhou in southern China. Chen Fuchao had been atop the Haizhu Bridge, threatening to jump for 5 hours. Officials held up traffic for nearly five hours…

FORGIVENESS A Texas man recently died due to complications from a gunshot wound he received over 35 years ago. Though the wound eventually lead to multiple organ failure, which killed Craig Buford, he had long since forgiven the man who shot him. Buford’s wife told a local newspaper her husband was shot…

ANGER Professional golfer Tommy Bolt died in 2008 at the age of 92. Because of his displays of temper, many called him Thunder Bolt. He gave advice to others on how to display their displeasure properly on a golf course. One of his favorites was, “Always throw the club ahead of you so you can pick it…

ANGER Anger can kill. It may not be as quick as an automatic weapon, but it is just as deadly. In the introduction to their book Anger Kills, Williams & Williams say: "getting angry is like taking a small dose of some slow-acting poison—arsenic, for example—every day of your life. (p. vii ) "Be angry,…