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...laws following a school shooting seven years ago. Obviously gun control is not the cause of such crimes, but perhaps this shooting shows that such measures are not enough. The shooter’s father was a shooting club member who owned 15 legally licensed weapons. More of the weight of such crimes must fall on the parents and others who leave such weapons in reach. Allowing unlicensed individuals to access one’s weapons should incur tougher penalties. Stricter penalties and regulations on gun sales could help keep such weapons out of troubled hands, but, as long...
...voted for Obama. Like it or not, Republicans always will be on the fringe. Second, apologizing for stereotypes aids the opposition because it implies that others’ misconceptions are well founded. It’s like answering the question, “When are you going to lose weight?” There’s no right answer...
...haven for violent representations of sin and punishment, boosting numerous tales of severed organs and sexual mortifications, as well as an emphasis on the shedding of the Christ’s blood. The chapter on religion and representation of the Christ is the longest, and emphasizes the weight of religious images in the visual culture of the Middle Ages. Although Groebner raises insightful assertions about this phenomenon, he never effectively links it to its modern connotations or interpretations, therefore weakening his wider argument about medieval visual culture influencing the modern appeal of violence.Although Groebner does not convincingly support his thesis...
...often bitter, and as I have pointed out before, the book makes at least one fundamental error in the way it conceives of mental problems: it ignores causes almost entirely. If you feel sad and tired for a couple of months, have trouble sleeping and making decisions, and gain weight, you can be given a DSM diagnosis of depression (296.31 or 296.32, mild or moderate, recurrent) and prescribed drugs for it - even if the reason for your funk is that you just lost your job. Such physiological responses as insomnia are evolutionarily natural (and sometimes helpful, in a jump-starting...
...punk (one which they were only awarded de facto) and the glitzy sheen of pop production that denoted it. “Not Without a Fight” aspires to a grittier, harder sound. But while this approach is not without some success, ultimately the album sags under the weight of its overused clichés and utterly insipid lyricism. Right from the start, the album smacks of NFG’s new sound. “Right Where We Left Off” barrels forth with heavily distorted, amped up guitars and dizzying cymbal crashes that don?...