As a child, I knew I’d never be able to have children. It was an opportunity that was simply not present for me. Still, I always wanted children. Though I don’t feel envy, I’m sometimes saddened when I see happy parents with children they love. So I can’t understand why Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen…
Lynch mobs, dancing on graves, and making political hay
November 28, 2015
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…