10 Of The Most Shocking Murder Cases That Happened During The Holidays Natalia Vela “ Afternoon of Christmas Day, and all but one of the Lawsons would be dead. The bodies of each family member were found with rocks beneath their heads and their arms crossed. To this day the motive and reason behind the murders remains a mystery.
132 Children Killed By Taliban In Pakistani School Massacre James B. Barnes “ “The smallest coffins are the heaviest.” -via Twitter
Terrorists In Iraq Have Massacred 1700, Shamelessly Photographing Mass Graves James B. Barnes “ Mass graves are being dug and filled in Iraq today.
Elliot Rodger Obviously Didn’t Deal Very Well With Rejection Jim Goad “ When a tornado passes through a town and rips everything in its path to bloody shreds, attempting to explain why it happened is not the same as blaming something for why it happened.
Misogyny Wasn’t The Only Thing Driving Elliot Rodger, But It’s The Main Conversation We’re Having Regardless Eliza Newman “ His actions were the combined effect of mental illness, gun control and white privilege. Yet the primary conversation being had — in the media and beyond — is about misogyny.
James Holmes And Joe Paterno: A Tale Of Two Evils David McMillan “ In his lectures on Shakespeare’s Othello, the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge argued that what spurs Iago to destroy Othello is nothing more or less than “motiveless malignity.” That to me is still the best definition of pure evil I know of.