Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘Audrey Hepburn’

Lynch mobs, dancing on graves, and making political hay

When I was a child, I saw one of the most horrifying films ever made: The Ox-Bow Incident. It’s about the psychology of lynch mobs. Yesterday Robert Lewis Dear Jr carried out a six-hour siege at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He killed two civilians and University of Colorado-Colorado Springs Police officer…

 

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Gimmie Wayda!

For at least forty-five minutes now, an obese woman across the street has been shouting, “GIMMIE WAYDA!” I went out my back door and crept around behind my car so I could see. There are actually three obese women standing there on the sidewalk. I don’t recognize any of them. They’re all in their forties…

 

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