Social worker here. You’d be surprised how shitty state agencies run when it involves the health and welfare of children. I would encourage you to look up Danieal Kelly. One of the most extreme cases of neglect I’ve read about. I seriously reconsidered working with kids after reading about the case. Also, you’ll going…

In a statement, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said that “The parents were unable to immediately provide a logical reason why their children were restrained in that manner.”

Records show that David Allen Turpin had received state approval to operate a private school out of his home

... and whilst he looks one hundred and five years old, I bet (many years down the line) this ex-black girlfriend still looks like she could be his daughter.

Yup. I’ve heard some vile racist shit living in Britain, but “I’m high on racism not dope” is some pretty incredible, next-level stuff, and what he went on to say was not “semi-racist”, it was as extreme as it gets short of breaking the law (in fact, nowadays, he could and would have been arrested for that little…

Clapton is ok. But he is highly overrated. Prince was GOAT, but severely underrated to the point that it was almost insulting. But check out this video if you haven’t already of this prince solo he did with Tom Petty at the Rock and Roll hall of fame. The story is Prince was insulted that he wasn’t included on the…

He’s not even close to being the greatest guitarist of all-time, and I’ve never heard anyone seriously argue that he is. He is known for playing rock/blues solos in boring songs. Prince, my vote for GOAT, could play circles around him and was 500 x’s more talented in every other aspect of music. And, yeah, Prince was…

“Half of my friends were black, I dated a black woman, and I championed black music”

I used to be into dope, now I’m into racism.

All of those “british invasion” bands stole American black music, repackaged it and sold it back to Americans.

Kinda surprised, but not really. Its sad though considering how much he has siphoned off our music. I still dont get why he has been hailed as one of if not the best guitarist of all time and a guitar god. I can name at least 5 guitarists (mainly jazz) that are better than him.

Yes! I’ve seen them at the cheaper flea market / antique mall in my area for a few bucks.

Leave it to Atlas Obscura to find this. I fucking love that site. First place I go when I plan a vacation. Hell I go there and just make bucket lists.

Agreed, although I’m pretty biased as both of my parents worked for the company for 20+ years. Say what you will about multi level marketing, but the craftsmanship that went into each basket really was special. And not to mention what Dave did for that whole Dresden area - the jobs he created, with full health care…

It warms the cockles of my cold, dead heart to see that someone has finally bought that building. I just have an irrational love for the damn thing. I’m sure I’m not the only Ohioan who feels this way. I mean it’s a giant goddamn basket in basically the middle of nowhere. It’s a treasure. Utterly pointless, but…

I would dress up like an ant.

I had never heard of these baskets until I was working my first job out of college. I was a consultant and one of the legacy employees was an older guy who was just the nicest, sweetest man. His wife was a major Longaburger seller. It was her primary income stream. She went to Longaburger conventions and the whole…

Develop it into condos for Trump supporters and you’d have a literal basket of deplorables.

I’m old enough to remember when these baskets were incredibly popular. I had just finished college and started my first real job, and the pressure to go to these stuped basket parties with co-workers was crazy. Or they would have catalog parties, where you just ordered out of the catalog.

I would dress up like a muffin every damn day to work.