I’m sitting at an IHOP restaurant, and I hear a harmonica. What a fabulous sound to hear in public in the middle of the day! It’s not a “good” player; it’s just someone having fun blowing on the instrument. I look around for the source of the joyous sound, and I spot the little boy [...]
Picture teenagers as young as 13 years old, screaming “Put your hands up!” and “Separate your feet!” while carrying airsoft guns and practicing such scenarios as chasing illegal border crossers, taking down terrorists, facing campus mass-murderers, or raiding a marijuana field.
According to the recent NYT article Scouts Train to Fight Terrorists, and More by Jennifer [...]
Some links for your Sunday reading:
I wrote earlier this week about mass messages of fear. Here’s a story about how fear affects how we raise our children. Check out the whole blog for lots of good tidbits about raising kids without fear.
Another person dead who shouldn’t be - at the hands of a cop. (Via)
Schick [...]
A collection of links that are interesting to me, but didn’t make the cut for full-blown commentary:
Have you read the article Deadly Force at the Washington Post? Read the whole thing, every single word, and think about who the victims are in the War on Drugs. (Answer: all of us.)
An interesting Zero Waste project in [...]
It’s popular to create sensational news items expressing shock and titillation at the latest “craze” involving teenagers and sex. Auto-erotic asphyxiation gets revolving press. There was that big story about the sex club involving points for certain actions, which I can’t find a link for right now. “Hooking up” has been a popular story lately, [...]
If you’re cynical about the world, as I am, how do you describe the masses around you when you’re ranting about the ills of the world? Which ills do you rant about? How about a lack of communication and community? Addiction to legal pills designed to cure this and that? Energy and environmental concerns? People [...]
I read a line in a book recently where a character was reminding himself not to compare his insides to other people’s outsides. This is certainly an error that is common. It is only possible for us to know the absolute intimacy of our own insides, yet we often compare ourselves to others, when our [...]
I recently ran across an article from the Washington Post on female circumcision amongst Kurds in Iraq. Female circumcision is also called female genital mutilation (FGM) and female genital cutting (FGC) and is categorized by the details of different practices into Type I, II, III, and IV.
I know what I’m “supposed” to feel when I [...]
My outrage and disgust are hard to place into words. I went to the movie theater tonight and prior to the show I was assaulted with this piece of absolute garbage, courtesy of your tax money:
For those of you who can’t view the video, never fear, I’m about to explain it to you in full, [...]
