On an overcast spring morning in southeast Georgia, Sonny Graham drank some coffee and headed out the door for another day in the family landscaping business and to take his 9-year-old stepson to the dentist. But Graham made a detour to the backyard shed that he'd built.
There, the 69-year-old picked up the 12-gauge Remington shotgun he'd taken on so many quail- and dove-hunting trips, pointed the muzzle at the right side of his throat and pulled the trigger.
It was April Fools Day, almost exactly 13 years since another man's suicide gave Graham a second chance at life.
That man was Terry Cottle. When he ended his life, Graham got his heart.
But it was not just an organ that connected Graham and the 33-year-old donor. Nearly a decade after the transplant, Graham married Cottle's young widow.
And now Graham had made her a widow again.
As word of his death spread, the Internet lit up with the stor ... Read more ...

I have been watching the hell out of the Olympics and have really enjoyed them. Watching people like Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt has been inspiring. While watching the metal ceremonies, I became interested in the various national anthems. I did a little research on the Star-Spangled Banner and found that there is more than the one verse that I’m used to singing at Utah Jazz games. Anyway, I thought the words were pretty cool and thought I would share. Tell me what you think. Here they are:

O! say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming.
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming.
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land o ... Read more ...

Stuffed animals in the rear window of your vehicle.

Bumper stickers that are too small to read.

Chicks doing their makeup.

A merge sign because I'm driving into construction.

Construction workers just standing there insuring that there will be a traffic jam at that location for months to come.

Red plastic cups stuck in the chain link fence of an over-head walk way that spell out "Jill Loves Bart" or whatever your stupid names are.

Half-assed graffiti. If you’re going to do it, at least give me something worth looking at.

The turbo charged diesel truck right in front of me dumping a cloud of black smoke into my air intake for me to smell.

The decomposing deer on the side of the road that slowly rots day after day after day.

The sun, one inch below my visor, right in front of my face.

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BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a change! The chicken wanted change!

JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.

HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure - right from Day One! - that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me.

GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.

DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?

COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.
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A variation on the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, it's the Six Degrees of Wikipedia! How many articles are between two topics?

From Kevin Bacon to eBaumsworld? 3 clicks.
From guitar to avocado? 3 clicks.
From Mount Rushmore to Kermit the Frog? Only 2 clicks!
I'm still looking for an un-obvious one-click link. Let me know if you find one!

Also, the most clicks I've been able to get is 4. Post one if you can get more than that.