thedailywhat:

Heartwarming Tearjerker of the Day: Four-year-old comic book fan Anthony Smith is deaf in his right ear and has hearing damage in his left. He also refused to wear his hearing aid (which he calls “Blue Ear” because it is blue), because “superheroes don’t wear hearing aids.” So in a long-shot attempt to help her son, Anthony’s mom emailed Marvel for ideas.

“She didn’t know a specific person to write to here at Marvel, and even figured it might get caught in our spam filters, but she sent it in anyway, because that’s the kind of great parent Christina is,” said Marvel editor Bill Rosemann. “And it was her inspiring effort to help her son that touched so many of us here. As a fellow parent of a toddler, I can understand where she’s coming from, so I forwarded the email around the rest of Editorial, asking what we could do to help, and like when Cap yells, ‘Avengers Assemble,’ the gang leapt into action.”

Not only did Anthony receive an image of the superhero Hawkeye, who lost 80 percent of his hearing back in the ’80s and wore hearing aids — Anthony also received a drawing, by Nelson Ribeiro in Collected Editions, of a brand-new superhero: “Blue Ear.”

Now, with his hearing aid back in, Anthony is able to “fight battles and help people.” His preschool, for hearing-impaired kids, recently hosted a superhero week to inspire the students to overcome their limitations.

DON’T miss the video. It’s the best thing you’ll see all day.

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Nice.

(Source: awesomephilia, via funyetsuperfluous)

thedailywhat:

Prison Sentence of the Day: A Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA locate Osama bin Laden has been convicted of treason and sentenced to 33 years in prison. Held for a year, Shakil Afridi was tried under a set of tribal laws that human rights organizations have criticized for failing to provide due process — people have no rights to legal representation, to present material evidence, or to cross-examine witnesses.

U.S. officials say Afridi helped the CIA by running a hepatitis vaccination program to collect DNA and verify bin Laden’s presence  in Abbottabad. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had hoped to see Afridi freed, saying his work served Pakistani and American interests.

Pentagon spokesman George Little said today that “anyone who helped the United States find bin Laden was working against al-Qaida, and not against Pakistan.”

This development does not bode well for U.S.-Pakistani relations — the two countries currently are engaged in talks over reopening NATO supply routes to U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan.

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icanmakeamessss:

SO TRUE.

thedailywhat:

Kickass Kid of the Day: As 9-year-old Josef Miles and his mother walked around Kansas’ Washburn University campus last weekend, he noticed a group of Westboro Baptist Church members picketing as people headed to graduation ceremonies.

Josef asked mom if he could create his own sign, and promptly staged a one-man protest. His sign, written in pencil on a tiny sketchpad, read simply, “God Hates No One.”

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longhornbambam:

Private James Marshall Hendrix of the 101st Airborne, playing guitar at Fort Campbell Kentucky 1962. - Imgur

How’d you get life insurance, Lana? (Taken with instagram)

Like a bullet in my fucking skull. (Taken with instagram)

For when you REALLY don’t think you’ll make it to the house in time. (Taken with instagram)