http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/03/31/prison-serves-piping-hot-plates-garbage?cmpid=tpfood-eml-2015-04-04-monsanto

Prison food is notoriously unappealing, but one Michigan prison kitchen hit a ( Read more... )

http://spotceleb.com/2011/03/11/pennsylvania-man-sentenced-to-life-in-toddlers-murder/

In some other species, males kill the babies of other males, thus attempting to eliminate the genes of rivals from the gene-pool. Well, this ( Read more... )

Chile prison fire kills at least 81SANTIAGO, Chile -A fire that began during a riot in a severely overcrowded prison killed at least 81 inmates Wednesday and seriously injured 14 others, officials said. Chileans nationwide could hear the screams of inmates after a prisoner using an illegal cell phone called state television for help ( Read more... )

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http://www.parentdish.com/2010/01/22/mom-forced-son-to-kill-hamster-as-punishment-for-bad-grades/

I have to wonder how such ghastly parents get that twisted up inside.

The fruits of the greatest sacrifice - that of self in the service of Life - can redeem whole worlds. Following is a passage from Robert R. McCammon’s wonderful novel Swan Song (New York: Pocket Books, 1987). It was became of Sister’s tremendous courage, persistence, patience, and gritty tenacity that Swan, the LightBringer, was rescued and the ( Read more... )

“Shenandoah (The Wide Missouri)” was an early land ballad about a trader who wooed the daughter of an Indian chief and then left her on the shores of the wide Missouri. The song was taken to sea, perhaps by some of the peripatetic lumberjacks who worked in the woods in the winter and aboard ship during the summer. Without significant changes made ( Read more... )

http://www.reason.com/cy/cy051104.shtml

http://townhall.com/columnists/ArmstrongWilliams/2004/05/10/the_culture_of_violence