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07/03/2014

The Six O’Clock News: Examining the Bigger Picture of the Oscar Pistorius Trial (Mostly Unscientifically) So that You Don’t Have To!

I haven’t been sure what to talk about today because the week’s big news, Ukraine, is changing so fast that a blog would be redundant in about twenty minutes. In a lot of ways so would the Oscar Pistorius trial but Ruby and I were talking earlier about aspects of it, so let’s have a Continue reading

March 2014, Newspapers, The Six O’Clock News, THE WORLD *head in hands*

ABC, accidental shootings, CBS, crime, crime rates, firearms, gun ownership, gun ownership debate, Indifferent Ignorance, Oscar Pistorius, self-preservation, society, South Africa, the right to bear arms, The Six O’Clock News, USA, WPXI
13/12/2013

The Ten O’Clock News: Another Tribute

I really don’t know where to start with this post. I garbled a bit about Mandela in June when everyone was all “he’s going to die soon! We had better write something really intense beforehand so that we don’t look like we’re following the crowd when he has died!” And now he has and I Continue reading

December 2013, DISCUSS., The Ten O’Clock News, THE WORLD *head in hands*

Apartheid in South Africa, Indifferent Ignorance, Nelson Mandela, South Africa, The Ten O’Clock News