Little Monsters: Even Toddlers Feel Schadenfreude

OMAHA, Neb. — Tornadoes wreaked havoc Friday in the Midwest, causing a building to collapse with dozens of people inside and destroying and damaging hundreds of homes, many around Omaha, Nebraska. As of Friday night, there were several reports of injuries but no immediate deaths reported. Tornado warnings continued to be issued into the night in Iowa. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Three people were hurt in Nebraska’s Lancaster County when a tornado hit an industrial building, causing it to collapse with 70 people inside.

As we mark Passover, when Jews celebrate their founding liberation from a tyrannical Pharaoh who enslaved them, the sages remind us Pharaohs come in all guises and liberation is not a one-time event. It must be re-enacted in each generation and in each heart. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Today,16 million Jews in a world of eight billion face rising external threats.

My soul looks back and wonders. The details are not hard to remember, at least some of them aren’t. They haunt and somewhere lodged in the cracks and crevices of the memories are indications of what was to come. Past as prologue, I guess, or as prophecy. I have avoided returning to these lectures for over a decade now.

In the early 2000s, one in 12 of the British population was born abroad. Now that figure is closer to one in six—higher than even America, the proverbial land of immigrants. And the number is still rising rapidly; over the last two years, almost 2 million people have moved to the U.

The Broncos got to celebrate either way. They were happy to get Utah edge Jonah Elliss at No. 76 overall on Friday night, but they were excited about the prospect of trading back and gathering picks had he not been available. In fact, general manager George Paton thought the moment might have warranted celebrating considering head coach Sean Payton’s history of moving forward rather than in reverse during the draft. “We were actually considering trading back and it would have been Sean’s first time maybe ever moving back,” Paton quipped.

Instant reaction from the Avalanche’s 6-2 win over the Winnipeg Jets in Game 3 of their first-round Stanley Cup Playoffs series. 1. Stick in the face wakes Avs up: The Avs had knotted the game at 2-2 on a Nathan MacKinnon laser 2:11 into the third stanza when Winnipeg’s Gabriel Vilardi rearranged Devon Toews’ face.