She grabs her son who's crying, lifts him forcefully up in this jerking motion, and then screams word for word, "You've ruined my life! You're always crying!" Right into the kid's face. She then promptly disappears back to her car, or wherever, leaving my friend and me to scratch our collective heads and wonder what the hell was that all about. And then we laughed.
...Wikileaks has been silenced. The contents of the leaked packets of information is unsettling enough and just about any media outlet with its finger anywhere near America’s pulse has jumped all over them and produced a cacophony of analyses and moral sentiments ranging from the outraged to the furious.
Like so many other games, Alice: Return to Madness plays with the theme of insanity not for any enlightened purpose—which, granted, neither did the Grand Theft Auto franchise either, and many others. So, how and why does that make it any different?
Taking the viewer from tragedy to comedy and then something in between—something we'll call tragicomedy for short—Exit Through the Gift Shop does so much more than your average documentary.
As I read the analysis’s of Laughner’s patchwork manifestos and cobbled-together, text based video blogs on the various news and opinion sites I frequent, I am struck both by how desperately the reasonable among us are trying to make sense of this rampage and how futile their efforts are. The only place the actions of Jared Laughner made sense was in his own deformed mind, and it is not unreasonable to suggest that they no longer make sense there either.
Our parents had the Hippies, our older siblings had the Punks; and from the looks of things, we're stuck with the Hipsters. I'm not trying to write a rant condemning all Hipsters (although with sufficient reader feedback I'd be happy to!) Instead, I'm just trying to make sense of what seems to be one of our generation's most visible cultural products.
By: Andrea Elizabeth What do you do when your CHILD is clearly having a sexual moment in front of you? For most parents in the USA, their first and final decision is to scold and punish the child. Well, psychologists claim this is completely wrong way to respond. As…
Facebook, if used properly, could be such a tool for liberation that the structure of society would be turned on its head and we would all be liberated from our very structured and protected lives.
One of the most common supporting arguments of mergers is that mergers create more efficient, more effective entities producing a better end product for its consumers. This argument defies basic logic when it comes to the motivation of a company. With a dominant market share of an industry, there is a seeming lack of external factors that would motivate firms to produce at their best.
There comes a point where, in order to fully represent our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and our nation's core is to recognize Islam as a fully autonomous, free will society that, as a religion, has the freedom to grow and develop in its own path and not one that is paved by anyone else.