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Consider the boy, at 13 or 18, through the two-way mirror at a police station - oh, he knows you're watching - and see a creature of preternatural poise. He already has the disquieting gift of lowering the temperature of any room he enters. He is armed, by birth and training, with courtly courtesy; it would be called charm, if he were human. These impeccable manners do their best to conceal two of the lad's salient traits: his contempt for people and his almost artistic curiosity in how he might hurt them...
...Christmas and Halloween somehow mated and managed to give birth to a holiday, this would be the terrifying result. In a role inspired by both Jolly Old Saint Nick and Hannibal Lecter, this Santa Claus decides that his choice reindeer serve better as choice cuts of meat. Can he be stopped? Or rather, could it possibly be worth 28 bucks to see him be stopped...
Barbara Kingsolver understands that human life boils down to three basic essentials—birth, death, and sex. Kingsolver’s “Prodigal Summer” is a 444-page celebration of both the wildness that unites humans with the natural world and the deep emotional capacity that make us unique...
...issue are contaminants in plastics used to make the toys. Environmentalists have long argued that some of these chemicals can leach out and harm children, pointing to animal studies that link the substances to birth defects, cancer and developmental abnormalities. Those warnings are hotly disputed by the chemical industry and toy manufacturers, which cite stacks of scientific studies that have found the plastics to be safe at federally approved levels. But the issue has gained traction on the strength of new evidence from independent and university-sponsored studies. The European Union has banned some chemicals in toys since...
...couple of mollycoddles out there want to put the kibosh on that? Line 'em up, man. Line up pop culture from The Nigger of the Narcissus to The Birth of a Nation to To Kill a Mockingbird, right on through N.W.A. and "Niggas vs. Black People," and on to comedian Dave Chappelle playing a blind Ku Klux Klan member who ends up yelling "nigger" at himself...