“She and her friends are cooler than us,” one of my friends joked when referring to another girl’s circle. “They do a lot of fun stuff together. We don’t.” My friends and I are now 30 and older, making her statement sound a bit schoolgirlish. Still, I understood what she was saying. Our girlfriend experiences were getting quite boring. Though most of us lived in different cities, when we did get together we didn’t make remarkable memories. Sleeping or lying around watching old reality show reruns isn’t anything worth talking about. Shamefully, most of the time we were too tired to get dressed to get out and do something. So, what do you do when your friend circle is a boring one? Should you find new friends and make new experiences?… [ MadameNoire ] Do You Know Your Neighbors Sometimes I can’t stand my neighbors. Actually, the way I feel is more annoyance than anything else. And not just because…the neighbors directly above me who disrupt me regularly sound like heavy-footed monsters every time they schlep about their apartment… The reason I am annoyed is because I have lived at my current residence for years and though tenants have come and gone, I’ve known only one – a friendly, elderly Black man (who happens to be the only other Black person in my building). It’s not that I haven’t tried to befriend my neighbors. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect a fellow tenant to respond when I say hello to them in the hallway, in the parking lot or laundry room… [ MadameNoire ] Over 50 Cops Involved In Fatal Shootings Had Prior Incidents An alarming number of fatal police shootings across the nation this year alone has ignited debate about the use of force when confronting suspects… The Washington Post examined all of the fatal shootings that occurred in 2015 and discovered 55 officers had prior shooting incidents with some officers involved in multiple incidents. While some of the shootings appeared to be justified, the report does signal a trend where the use of force isn’t the last resort it once was for those in law enforcement. From the Post:… For a handful of officers, it was their third fatal shooting. For one officer, it was his fourth. The findings concerned many law enforcement experts, who said that most officers never fire their weapons on the job. The analysis also exposed another gap in the federal government’s oversight of fatal police shootings nationwide: the absence of a system for tracking multiple shootings by individual officers… [ HipHopWired ] Teyonah Parris Set To Star In Miki Howard Biopic [ Vibe ] Mack Wilds … Cop Busts Midtown Champagne Celebration [ TMZ Woman Dies After Being Forcibly Removed From Hospital [ HuffingtonPost ] Gargantuan 2015 Christmas Eve Asteroid To Fly By Earth: How To View Rare, Nearly Two-Miles-Wide Space Rock [ StarPulse ]
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When Your Friends Are Boring, Do You Need To Find New Ones?
