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theatlantic: “We’re going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics,” Obama said during a brief address from the White House, where he repeatedly wiped away tears. “We’ve endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years. Each time I learn the…
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Roger Ebert on the media’s coverage of school shootings
jkottke: From his review of Gus Van Sant’s Elephant, a fictionalized account of a Columbine-like school shooting, here’s Roger Ebert on the media’s behavior while reporting these kinds of events. Let me tell you a story. The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program. The reporter had been assigned a…
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The people who fight and lobby and legislate to make guns regularly available are complicit in the murder of those children… Adam Gopnik on the Newtown shooting, and the madness of guns: http://nyr.kr/Z6u6UZ (via newyorker)
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We have grown accustomed to what will happen next. The President will likely visit a funeral or a memorial service and, at greater length, comfort the families of the victims, the community, and the nation. He will be eloquent. He will give voice to the common grief, the common confusion, the common outrage. But then…
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Fuck Everything, Nation Reports; Just Fuck It All To Hell
Fuck Everything, Nation Reports; Just Fuck It All To Hell kateoplis: “WASHINGTON—Following the fatal shooting this morning at a Connecticut elementary school that left at least 27 dead, including 20 small children, sources across the nation shook their heads, stifled a sob in their voices, and reported fuck everything. Just fuck it all to hell.…
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Not even kindergarteners learning their A,B,Cs are safe. We heard after Columbine that it was too soon to talk about gun laws. We heard it after Virginia Tech. After Tucson and Aurora and Oak Creek. And now we are hearing it again. For every day we wait, 34 more people are murdered with guns. Today,…
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Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke
shrinkrants: Matt Taibbi: If you’ve ever been arrested on a drug charge, if you’ve ever spent even a day in jail for having a stem of marijuana in your pocket or “drug paraphernalia” in your gym bag, Assistant Attorney General and longtime Bill Clinton pal Lanny Breuer has a message for you: Bite me. Breuer…
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In this article I will be taking a look at the life and career of Marcia Lucas (nee Griffin), and the impact and influence she had on her husband’s films. Such a piece has never been attempted before, whether in print, in video, or on the internet. Even on web pages all one finds is…