Cult leaders are fucked up by definition, but this one was on a wholly different level. Just re-reading the smallest detail as I post this made me physically cringe. Just un-fucking-believable.

A crazy part of this story to me is it was occurring just a 3-hour drive from my family, yet to my recollection no one I've ever met has ever mentioned it ( Read more... )

A food taster is a person who ingests food that was prepared for someone else, to confirm it is safe to eat. One who tests drinks in this way is known as a cupbearer. The person to whom the food is to be served is usually an important person, such as a monarch or somebody under threat of assassination or harm.
I always thought of these as a quirk of ( Read more... )

Driven to Kill - Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit.

It took 1 min 47 seconds for my memory to become host to a horror that will never goA good (if old) article about why you should be selective about what you look at on the internet, no matter how tempting ( Read more... )

Corporate manslaughter in English law
Corporate manslaughter is a criminal offence in English law, being an act of homicide committed by a company or organisation. In general, in English criminal law, a juristic person is in the same position as a natural person, and may be convicted for committing many offences. The Court of Appeal confirmed in ( Read more... )

Charlize Theron was really good in Monster. Wow.

Watching this was a strange experience. You can't help but feel sorry for the guy being in complete solitude out of his control. All the while being unable to fathom his cannibalistic urges. He's clearly not insane, but there's a switch somewhere in his brain that's different than most people. It's a bleak video/story, with no answers. ( Read more... )

Is lucid dream pedophilia immoral? That was an odd thought i had in last night's lucid dream. I'm thinking literally anything goes ( Read more... )

It turns out avunculus doesn't have the meaning i'd imagined at all. I'd never looked it up until now, only imagining what it could mean.

I only found out because i randomly came across the word Avunculicide while researching serial killers. Neat word alert: nepoticide - the killing of a nephew.

The Burke and Hare murders were serial murders perpetrated in Edinburgh, Scotland, from November, 1827 through October 31, 1828. The killings were attributed to Irish immigrants William Burke and William Hare, who sold the corpses of their 17 victims to provide material for dissection. Their purchaser was Doctor Robert Knox, a private anatomy ( Read more... )