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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.

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“The smallest coffins are the heaviest.” -via Twitter

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Mass graves are being dug and filled in Iraq today.

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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.

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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.

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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.