Truth, Justice, and All-American Allergen-Free Apple Pie
Straight Talk in a Crooked World
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy there is a character called Grima Wormtongue. Wormtongue is an advisor to the king of Rohan who is constantly pumping the king full of verbal toxins, keeping the king weak and looking aged beyond his years. When Wormtongue is finally exposed for the controlling, venomous leech he […]
Read More Mogul Mothers, Suppressed SonsSandra L. Brown has been a favorite author of mine for years. But I didn’t know until today what motivates her ongoing fight for justice and crusade against psychopaths.
Read More Why Some Fight for JusticeLast weekend in Gig Harbor, a Pierce County Sheriff’s deputy shot and killed his in-laws, held his own children hostage, and then committed suicide. I was shocked; then I wasn’t. The media didn’t name the victims right away and I wanted to know who they were. The murder-suicide happened right behind my old middle school. […]
Read More Officer-Involved Domestic ViolenceToday in Caracas, famed Venezuelan boxer Edwin Valero hung himself by his sweatpants in his jail cell. That’s the part you’ll see in most headlines posted on the internet so far. Dig deeper, click on the links, and you’ll discover that Valero was incarcerated on suspicion of murdering his wife, 24 year-old Jennifer Carolina Viera. […]
Read More Punishing Our Partners: Boxer Murders Wife, Kills HimselfIn August of 2008 I was taken aback by a letter to the editor in a local paper regarding a domestic violence-driven murder-suicide. The letter writer scoffed at the suggestion that handcuffs and hardcore porn found in the suspect’s possession had anything to do with the murder. They claimed that such “sensationalist journalism” would start […]
Read More Letter to Editor – 8/16/08
Truth, Justice, and All-American Allergen-Free Apple Pie 