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...loaded my M-16/ And I blew those little f___ers to eternity." Many defended "Hadji Girl" as gallows humor, but on the web there is no shortage of just plain gallows, either. A search for "Iraq" and "combat" at Ogrish.com or YouTube.com will field dozens of semi-pro snuff films of varying degrees of gore. Many are set to music - power ballads, speed metal, and in one case, an ironic lounge-act crooner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The YouTube War | 7/19/2006 | See Source »

...York City, captures a handful of jumpers as they launch themselves over the railing. His aim, Steel told the San Francisco Chronicle, was to challenge audiences to "talk and think about suicide in profoundly different ways." (Whatever its intentions, some critics have denounced it as reminiscent of a snuff film.) The film opened the same week that the bridge board got the final funding for a $2 million, two-year study into design concepts for a barrier, as well as research into a barrier's environmental, traffic, noise and esthetic impact and effectiveness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stopping Jumpers on the Golden Gate | 5/24/2006 | See Source »

...where they have a history of marring election campaigns with violence. The PM seemed positively delighted when Washington issued a travel advisory last week warning U.S. tourists to beware of street protests. "I have the duty to underline the danger of the political left," said Berlusconi, "which wants to snuff out our opinions by using violence." As Pierluigi Battista, a columnist for Corriere della Sera, summed up the campaign on Friday: "Alarm, hysteria and a climate of the 'final showdown' is everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Showdown in Italy | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

...Summers’ advisers argued that a forthright apology might snuff out the controversy before it intensified, according to the two sources. That assessment, in hindsight, may have been overly optimistic. But in any event, Summers was not on board...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers Balked at Early Apology | 1/13/2006 | See Source »

...only the students at Columbia had realized that the vast majority are so opposed to racism that it is easy to calmly snuff out the few places where it remains. Instead, they chose to risk rekindling the flame with their unnecessary fury...

Author: By John Hastrup | Title: Lovin’ ‘Hate Crimes’ | 12/13/2005 | See Source »

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