A World of Illusion
A world full of conspiracy theorists is the perfect place for an evil mastermind to work, undetected. So warns Carl Pettit: but just which side is he on? If I were an evil despot, maniacal overlord or...
View ArticleBREAKING: Army Maj. Nidal Hasan Found Guilty of Fort Hood Shooting Rampage
The 2009 attack at the Texas military base killed 13 people and wounded 32 others. — Army Maj. Nidal Hasan has been found guilty of “premeditated murder” for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood...
View ArticleWhy I Don’t Want to Write About the Santa Barbara Shooting
Joanna Schroeder isn’t surprised by the horrific, devastating mass murder just outside the campus of UCSB last night. —- No, I’m not shocked by the mass murder that happened last night in Santa...
View ArticleThe Private Tragedy of Living with a Mass Killer in the Family
Despite their own shock and grief, relatives of mass killers often feel they have to hide or atone. By Katherine Newman, Johns Hopkins University The mounting flowers and candles in Isla Vista mark...
View ArticleI Love Charles Manson, He is Innocent
Charles Manson, imprisoned mass murderer, is getting married to a young women who claims he is “innocent” and was “railroaded.” But is it “LOVE?” They say love is blind, but is it stupid? Not so...
View ArticleHow to Win The War Between Good and Evil
View image | gettyimages.com Raymond Bechard looks at what we must do to look evil in the face and conquer our worst fears. — No matter where you live, people may come for you in the night. One...
View ArticleHow Can We Keep Angry Men from Becoming Monsters?
Another mass shooting in the US and Angry Men are at the forefront again. Why? — There has been another shooting in the good ole US of A. Another monster, this time with his mate, shooting up...
View ArticleFrom Gump to Trump – How Did We Get Here?
View image | gettyimages.com . The world’s gone mad, “thoughts and prayers” don’t cut it anymore, so how are we supposed to cope? — A man arrived at my clinic for his appointment shortly after news...
View ArticleYes, Let’s have a Frank and Open Discussion About the Causes of Extremism and...
View image | gettyimages.com Everyone is sad and frustrated. So why aren’t we talking about it? — Several Australian government politicians have said a frank discussion is needed about the causes of...
View ArticleOne Hundred Percent American Mass Murder
Embed from Getty Images It would appear lots of people are trying to spin The Pulse Club attack as somehow less than the all-American mass murder that it is. Don’t believe them. ––– More importantly,...
View Article19 Terms for Relationships that Dehumanize Women
Words say a lot about how we think. These 19 expressions say we don’t value women in relationships. — — RSVP for #StopSexism Weekly Calls — Like most American boys, I grew up knowing dozens of terms...
View ArticleHow I’m Preparing My Kids to Live with Fear
Embed from Getty Images I read an article about school children practicing exiting their school. It wasn’t a fire drill, this was to prepare for a gunman roaming their hallways; the children were being...
View ArticleA Lesson From the Shootings in Las Vegas
Embed from Getty Images — The question “Why?” someone would kill innocent people leads to understanding that this man experienced a different world than you and I. This person had an inner world which...
View ArticleWhite Terrorists Don’t Exist (Apparently)
Embed from Getty Images — Some days you just have to count your blessings. I am really grateful to be a white, Christian man living in America in 2017. There are of course, all sorts of reasons for...
View ArticlePassing and Privilege: White Male Aspiration in the Age of the Loser and the...
Embed from Getty Images — There is a tendency in America to think of people as either winners or losers. Winners possess traits typically associated with normative masculinity and capitalism: in order...
View ArticleHow to Make a Mass Shooter
Dr. Andrew Smiler lists some of the factors that mass shooters have in common. — Another week, another mass killing. Or two, or three. Here in the US, we’ve had shootings in churches, movie theatres,...
View ArticleGuns Don’t Kill People: A Logical Look at the Mass Murders of Those Viewed as...
— Touchy, sensitive subjects need to be looked at logically, not only because I’m a high functioning autistic who sees the world in a very logical sense, but also because logic helps us separate out...
View ArticleAmerica’s First Serial Killer – H. H. Holmes Biography
— His legend, fueled by his own insatiable appetite for exaggeration, would turn him into a monster, ‘the arch-fiend of the age’ and the ‘greatest criminal of this expiring century’. His “Murder...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to America’s Next Would-Be Mass Murderer
You’ve been filled with and consumed by feelings of separation and angry thoughts since you were little. Your father and likely, at times, your mother didn’t know how to understand you in the world....
View ArticleEl Paso Finds Comfort through the Power of its Community
With a tinderbox of anger and tears running high, El Paso’s citizens are looking toward one another for strength in the wake of a gunman’s massacre. El Paso, the predominantly Hispanic border town,...
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