Vox’s posts tagged violence

Unlucky

nobody@vox.com(KittyKali) — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:03:01 +0000

Today, after a week of very hot weather, it got cold and it rained. I suppose it's not because I took with me my new sunglasses - bought yesterday. But could be... :K I try to be optimistic, but almost everythings goes wrong. For instance,...

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Scariest children's story you'll see all day

nobody@vox.com(Andy) — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:27:48 +0000

Our friend Kasey, who spent some of her childhood in Germany, told us last night of a book called Struwwelpeter. It's a collection of poems by a German pediatrician for children, written around the turn of the last century. The title character, St...

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A Street Fight

nobody@vox.com(crixpy 2.0) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:23:02 +0000

Last night I dreamed I was out on the town with my friend and her family, when she started drunkenly yelling about our ex-friend who is a big time f*ck up and deserves to have people drunkenly yelling about him. But of course right as she's really...

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More Things Fall Apart

nobody@vox.com(vtpanther) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:10:48 +0000

A few nights ago, I got to watch Deepa Mehta's film EARTH, the first in her EARTH, WATER, FIRE trilogy that provoked such a firestorm of protest in India. EARTH is about the unraveling of India upon the acquisition of Independence from the Britis...

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Allah or God?

nobody@vox.com(theway2k) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:28:57 +0000

Islam Watch is one of those websites a non-Mohammedan can go to receive an understanding of the theo-political teachings of Mohammedanism (better known as Islam). More and more anti-jihadists and anti-Islamists are beginning to sway to the opi...

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I Have a Dream....

nobody@vox.com(xelent) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:38:21 +0000

Looking on the latest military conflict to hit the news in South Ossetia, a small region of Georgia on the southern borders of Russia. Yet again we see the gargantuan misuse of a state military, bought and paid for, off the backs of individual h...

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The hidden violence of alcohol

nobody@vox.com(Chris Cormier) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:23:15 +0000

I did some imbibing (Sherri says, “Ooh, big word!”) this past weekend when the family came over for a BBQ. And I noticed how many of the words we use for drinking are also words for violence: Do you want a shot? (oh, gee, can I?) I’d like a ...

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Bad Boy, Bad Boy, Whatcha Gonna Do?

nobody@vox.com(Jessmiloo) — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:29:03 +0000

Seriously! What is up with all the cop sirens tonight? I think one of my neighbors were arrested earlier and I can hear for the third time tonight cop cars at the bar on the other side of the block. I don't look. We're a small town and I can read...

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something wicked this way comes

nobody@vox.com(Cat) — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:49:44 +0000

Why is it that as soon as my son heads off overseas, the world goes insane. Just before he left there was the australian guy bashed and thrown into a fire pitt in California by the homeless men. Now we have that terrible incident where the young...

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Violent Drunk Aboriginals or Violent Drunk People?

nobody@vox.com(Torack) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:56:17 +0000

I've lived the majority of my life without racial bias, and racism is something I strongly oppose. However, everyday here in Sydney, blatant things are thrown into my face to try and shake my stance on racism. Early this month about 11:50pm, I ha...

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Violence

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:53:48 +0000

Write-up of a study, courtesy of Freakonomics, that examines the educational impact of domestic violence: The costs of this dysfunction are even more profound. Kids exposed to domestic violence definitely do have lower reading and math scores an...

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Tennessee Church Shooting

nobody@vox.com(Emily) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:49:34 +0000

I'm sure a million other people have said this by now, but it truly boggles the mind: Jim David Adkisson walked into a Unitarian Universalist Church shot at people because he believes that "all liberals should die." He believes they should die bec...

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Pet Peeves

nobody@vox.com(Forrest) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:50:03 +0000

In the words of George Carlin, "I don't have pet peeves. I have major psychotic fucking hatreds." Today my major psychotic fucking hatred is uppity people of the same rank who think having a month more time in grade than me entitles them to child...

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People these days

nobody@vox.com(Terri in this world) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:14:57 +0000

I was headed out of walmart with my dad, just pushing our cart when some people came running through the automatic doors. A worker there said something was going on out side. I had seen enough giant lizard attacks sity movies to know to just tu...

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QotD: You're the Inspiration...

nobody@vox.com(Lita Lenners) — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:47:10 +0000

Who inspires you to be the person you are today? The people, who I respect and who I want to be like and people who need help. It can mean many things, but I'll tell you what I mean. I want to be able to help people, who are being slaved or c...

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Rescuing vs. Being an Ally: Some Tangents

nobody@vox.com(Emily) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:17:50 +0000

A couple of days ago, I blogged about Kyle Payne and male feminists. One of my main points was that, by poking around and reading some of Payne's writing, I felt that it was not surprising that someone who wrote that way would turn out to be an ab...

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Hell, meet Handbasket.

nobody@vox.com(blogginginthewind) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:28:11 +0000

We're on the verge of an economic Depression, according to yesterday's news. Soaring oil prices are just the first step in our march to the collapse of the infrastructure, the grid, and our flickering way of life, according to today's news. We're...

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Do you know what teens are up to?

nobody@vox.com(Chez Michelle) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:54:11 +0000

Having taken in one of my son's friends, my eyes have been opened to what life is like on the streets for teens (and for some who aren't on the streets). Keep in mind that I'm talking about teens anywhere from 14 to 18. Some of these kids live ...

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more senseless violence

nobody@vox.com(Flamingo Dancer) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:19:22 +0000

Daughter 1 awoke to a message from friend informing her that a mutual male friend, who is stationed with the army in the Northern Territory had been the innocent victim of senseless violence that has cost him his right eye and left him with 100 s...

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should we put unbelievers to the sword?

nobody@vox.com(Nick) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:24:21 +0000

On Judgement Day our attempts to be religious will testify against us. They'll seek to gobble us up; so we need to defang them in this lifetime. A holy book may tell believers to compel unbelievers to believe, and to kill them if they refuse...

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