Explosions, severely wounded bystanders, evacuations: the Boston Marathon has been marred by some kind of catastrophe at the finish line. New Englanders, report — we’re all wondering what happened, and I’m mainly getting just brief blips in between classes and meetings.
Category Archive: Crime
Apr 12 2013
But…but…those boys’ lives will be ruined!
Just another 15 year old girl getting gang-raped by some of her peers, just a few boys proudly taking photos of their rape victim and passing them around on their cellphones, just another episode of bullying and torment, and just another girl killing herself. Tragic, but we’re done now — she’s dead and not complaining …
Apr 12 2013
Nightmare fuel: Kermit Gosnell exposed
The grand jury’s report on the Gosnell Women’s Medical Services clinic (pdf) is freely available online, with photographs. It’s 281 pages of gag-reflex-inducing horror. Gosnell was living the good life: the report estimates he was bringing in almost $2 million a year, a number that is only approximated from the number of abortions he was …
Apr 09 2013
Why?
It’s another impossibly dreadful story of rape and bullying. Some of you might want to just skip the whole godawful thing.
Apr 08 2013
I can’t imagine living in an abusive relationship
But this video might help. This woman took one photo a day in the worst year of her life, as she was living through a relationship that got progressively uglier. It starts off easily enough, and when the first blush of a bruise appears one day, you think it doesn’t look so bad — she …
Mar 17 2013
Do you deny that rape culture exists?
Then read these compendia of public responses to the Steubenville rape. Rape culture is an attitude: that we show strength by abusing the weak, and that “weak” and “woman” are synonymous. It’s everywhere. And remember: Steubenville is just an ordinary town like a thousand others.
Mar 17 2013
Steubenville rapists found guilty
That appalling story of the Steubenville high school football players who took advantage of an unconscious girl — and callously bragged about it on twitter and in cell phone conversations — is coming to partial closure. Two of the players, Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond, were just found guilty. It was a bizarre case in …
Mar 13 2013
PZ was wrong wrong wrong
My esteemed co-blogger lists the usual pope field marks — old, male, conservative, homophobic, godbag — and says “that’s all you need to know” about New Pope. But it turns out, as pointed out by a few commenters downthread, that Francis I is worse than that. A lot worse. Says commenter sc_e94313c775e472e2749a200883fdec2e (can I call you …
Feb 20 2013
What? Zen Buddhists too?
This is getting ridiculous. Now there’s an ongoing sex abuse case within Zen Buddhism. Joshu Sasaki Roshi, the founder and Abbot of Rinzai-ji is now 105 years old, and he has engaged in many forms of inappropriate sexual relationship with those who have come to him as students since his arrival here more than 50 …
Feb 20 2013
An argument for gun control that might finally resonate with wingnuts
A tragic story: a man stuffed a gun in his pants and it accidentally went off, shooting him in the penis and leg. Let’s forestall the usual comments: no, he didn’t deserve to be mutilated this way, OK? But still, this kind of event is what we should worry about more, and which will occur …
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