The Huffington Post reports that Glen Beck and other conservative media personalities are blaming undocumented immigrants from Mexico for the spread of swine flu into the United States. Given that the true vector — tourists returning from Mexican vacations — has been widely publicized, there’s no way to read this other than as racism and [...]
Violence is nonsense. While people often deploy violence for rational purposes, violence itself is the opposite of sense.
Every abused child and battered woman knows this. You’re arguing with your parent or partner, pressing your point, trying to make yourself understood, working to reach agreement. Then — slam! — comes the slap or the kick [...]
I heard about the vicious gay-bashing of Mercy for Animals founder Nathan Runkle a few days ago but didn’t want to write anything until I was sure Nathan wanted the attack to be publicized. Now that Mercy for Animals has put out a press release about the incident, I guess it’s safe to speak of [...]
The blogger known as umkahlil has posted an article entitled The Psychosocial Causes of the Palestinian Factional War by Dr. Eyad El-Sarraj of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme in Palestine.
In the article, Dr. El-Sarraj seeks to identify the causes of the differences between the first intifada (uprising) of 1987-1991, which “was characterized by an [...]
