All indications are that Stanford rapist Brock Turner got a phrase (no, not sentence) of six months in prison in part because of two of the most tone-deaf character letters ever written to an American judge....
"It’s rare to go one day without a mass shooting in America."
That's how U.S. data and visual reporter for The Guardian, Alvin Chang, began a recent visual database of American gun violence.
According to the non-profit...
The National Rifle Association (NRA) is once again cranking up its propaganda machine in response to new federal rules from the Obama Administration that are designed to keep the mentally ill and domestic abusers from...
Let's be clear. Halloween?is?ugly. That's the way most of us like it. We cuddle on a couch and watch Freddie Krueger or Michael Myers, or we dress up as zombies and goblins. However, the recent...
Mark Twain supposedly said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
Those of us old enough and paying enough attention to appreciate the interesting times in which we live have been hearing a lot of...
Charles C. Johnson is showing no sign of letting up on his disgusting campaign to out "Jackie," the University of Virginia junior who says she was brutally gang-raped in her freshman year. Since Sunday night,...
When people claim that President Donald Trump is a misogynist, they have plenty of evidence to back them up.
During the campaign, Trump provided that evidence on a nearly daily basis. He made fun of his...
George Zimmerman was arrested last night in Lake Mary, Florida and booked with aggravated assault with a weapon.
Central Florida's News 13 updated the story to add,
"According to Don West, Zimmerman's attorney, his client threw a...
When I first heard that an eighth grader at a Baltimore-area middle school had been charged with second-degree assault after he kissed a girl on a dare, I initially thought this was a horrible overreaction....
Dear Mr. Graham:
You will notice that I didn't call you "Reverend." That was intentional. You don't deserve that title after the way you and the rest of the religious right made it clear that you...
A video taken before “blue lives matter” adherent Kyle Rittenhouse opened fire and killed two BLM protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin on August 25 shows police tossing water bottles to armed civilians. One officer broadcasted “We appreciate you being...
In California, one moving company has decided to do something to directly help victims of domestic abuse.
Meathead Movers, working in cooperation with Good Shephard Shelter, will move domestic abuse victims at absolutely no cost, totally free.
Good...
Here's an intellectual exercise Donald Trump's most ardent supporters probably haven't thought of.
If, as QAnon adherents believe, there hasn't been a legitimate President of the United States since Ulysses S. Grant, wouldn't that make Trump's...
19-year old teenager, Larnell Malik Bruce, had his head smashed in a store window and was later run over by a white supremacist and his girlfriend with their Jeep Wrangler, eventually leading to his death few days...
The horrifying photo below serves as a reminder of the seriousness of intimate partner abuse. It also gives insight into one of many reasons why victims don't just leave abusive relationships.
Police in the United Kingdom...
It appears wealthy right-wing donors behind the anti-mask, anti-vaccine, anti-democracy, anti-intellectual, "COVID hoax" wing of the republican party have widened their franchise.
Touting a so-called "freedom convoy," Canadian truck drivers protesting a vaccine mandate have fanned...
Change may be slow at times, but nothing can stop it.
Every year is historic in its own way, but 2020 stands out as one of the most turbulent and interesting in recent times.
One of the...
And Italian media company wanted to see what would happen if they asked a group of young boys to hit a young girl, so they conducted a social experiment to find out. The results were...
Question: Is it possible to hit anyone and still have them maintain their dignity?
Pope Francis seems to think so. He said as much recently before his general, weekly audience in regard to fathers disciplining children.
Francis...
James Dobson has been wrong about a lot of things for a long time. But one of his books tells victims of domestic battery something that's not only wrong, but potentially dangerous. For over a...
