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Adorable cleft-lipped boy adopts a cleft puppy—instant love.

September 12, 2020 By Karl 1 Comment

Cleft lip boy and dog.

Amid the 4 Ps confronting us Californians —pandemic, poverty,  protests, and pyrotechnics* — comes a heartwarming story from Sydney Page at The Washington Post. Just what I needed, as a fellow cleft-affected person, to forget about the "plagues" which are  depressing us in the San Francisco Bay Area. We've had to keep indoors (no outdoor masked activity) for twenty-something straight "unhealthy" Spare the Air days due to wildfires. Then a man who has a 2-year-old with a cleft … [Read more...]

Rory Gilmore and Janie Junebug love books and share ’em.

February 8, 2020 By Karl Leave a Comment

Many of you remember The Gilmore Girls popular show which aired 2000- 2007. It created a book club for people to read all of the 339 books referenced on the show, esp by Rory Gilmore who loved reading books. She also loved the smell of books. Rory Gilmore loves books. Rory   taught us   important things that are now a part of many people's everyday life. First - always take a book with you. This tip has saved countless of us from complete boredom. Whether we're meeting up with a friend … [Read more...]

How to boost the CLEFT HEART book and reap rewards.

December 19, 2018 By Karl Leave a Comment

Book cover of Cleft Heart: Chasing Normal

Thought some of you Cleft Heart book fans might get a kick out of seeing a photo (top right of the collage below) of politicians Pelosi and Schumer under an umbrella in D.C, back in the day. Actually, it's my sister Barbara and me in front of the U.S. Capitol after my dad mustered out of the military as a journalist in Washington, D.C. for the Navy's All Hands magazine. My loving sis  wrote last year about growing up with a brother with clefts here and here. She wanted to add to the book I'd … [Read more...]

McCain—Survivor, hero, villain, family man.

September 3, 2018 By Karl 14 Comments

John McCain—survivor, hero, villain, family man?

I've been thinking about Senator John McCain—survivor, hero, villain, family man? In mourning the passing of a one-of-a-kind U.S. senator, I've concluded he was a complex character, defying pigeon holes.   McCain—more than a survivor, hero, villain, family man. I get the impression that McCain was inventing himself as he went along. —1st. A rebel and later a poor student at Annapolis, frustrated that his family pigeon holed him as a Navy Man  given that his dad and grandfather were … [Read more...]

How to be a CLEFT HEART book booster and reap rewards.

December 9, 2017 By Karl Leave a Comment

Book cover of Cleft Heart: Chasing Normal

Thought some of you Cleft Heart book fans might get a kick out of seeing a photo (top right of the collage below) of politicians Pelosi and Schumer under an umbrella in D.C, back in the day. Actually, it's my sister Barbara and me in front of the U.S. Capitol after my dad mustered out of the military as a journalist in Washington, D.C. for the Navy's All Hands magazine. My loving sis  wrote last year about growing up with a brother with clefts here and here. She wanted to add to the book I'd … [Read more...]

Peyton Manning: Special treatment re sex scandal?

September 23, 2017 By Karl Leave a Comment

3/4 shots of Manning w football juxtaposed with & Naughright in black dress. Preferential treatment?

Today's blog begins to transition from the main prior focus of the website (clefts, disabled heroes, etc.). It embraces a newly added focus, loosely called 'discrimination' which includes special treatment of males, superstars, etc. by society. This blog features a compelling combination of both the former focus and the current focus of my website. The key phrase is "Peyton Manning cleft palate special treatment." Peyton Manning cleft palate special treatment. A little known fact about Peyton … [Read more...]

My brother’s clefts: When birth defects aren’t defects-Compete & Cooperate

August 3, 2017 By Karl Leave a Comment

Welcoming baby Steven—w/o birth defects.

A Disability, or Not? By Barbara Schonborn I didn’t think my brother Karl had birth defects. Nor did I think his cleft lip and cleft palate were disabilities. When we were children, Karl was just my competitor or my buddy. Brother with no birth defects completes the family. Steven, my second brother, was born when our family lived next door to our grandparents Schonborn in a rural neighborhood of Puyallup, Washington. Steven had no birth defects. His nose and mouth were normal, and he … [Read more...]

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  • Popular Culture and True Crime – Tutorial I – Serial Killer trading cards?
  • ‘40 Years a Prisoner’- Film about MOVE vs Philly Cops.
  • Why are so many fascinated by Serial Killers?
  • A Culture Of Discrimination in the US Navy.
  • Crime – Extremist Mass Murder – Tutorial – Proud Boys and Others Pose Threat.

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Serial Killer Trading Cards

Popular Culture and True Crime – Tutorial I – Serial Killer trading cards?

About the same time that Michael Aamodt, a professor at Radford University in Virginia, started cataloguing serial killers, trading cards popped up. Aamodt's Serial Killer Data Base, compiled with the help of students, is academic, respectable. See here for a prior blog re Aamodt's Radford … [Read More...]

MOVE

‘40 Years a Prisoner’- Film about MOVE vs Philly Cops.

How well I remember the days leading up to what seemed like just another incident of conservative urban police officials not understanding evolving radical beliefs and ideologies of the time. I'd just finished grad school in West Philadelphia, but still got  MOVE  updates from friends I'd visited in … [Read More...]

Fascinated by Serial Killers?

Why are so many fascinated by Serial Killers?

Are you spending hours binging on TV shows and documentaries about serial killers these days? Fascinated by serial killers? One might say Covid-19 is to blame. But many of you were fascinated by serial killers as a child. There was something about them. Many of them appeared quite charming, … [Read More...]

Discrimination in the US Navy

A Culture Of Discrimination in the US Navy.

This site examines all manner of discrimination. Bias towards as well as against people as here and here.  Steve Walsh , a military journalist, has written an important enough piece on the problem of promotions to admiral among black ranks in the US Navy, that it's worth repeating in … [Read More...]

Wolverine Watchmen

Crime – Extremist Mass Murder – Tutorial – Proud Boys and Others Pose Threat.

  My bad. I've overlooked extremist mass murder in recent posts. However, in my blog tutorial about multicide, I covered many types of mass murder in the US. And using data from the GunViolence.org Archive, I showed how many mass shootings we've had in recent years. Also, using CNN data, I … [Read More...]

Photos from my Books

Photos from the start of Cleft Heart , from the next part, the next, and from the end of the book.

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