It’s hard for a judge to disappoint both the prosecution and the defense during sentencing. But Judge Glenn Berman, who presided over the high-profile Rutgers roommate cyber-spying trial, did just that. “I heard this jury say, ‘guilty’ 288 times–24 questions, 12 jurors. That’s the multiplication. I haven’t heard you apologize once,” Berman said before sentencing [...]
By Maria Odete Madeira Desiring, dionysiac, obsessive, the hyperconsumption society is kept in delirium of precarious sustainability by a desperate market economy, as its civilizational ex libris imperative: it is necessary to produce in excess, it is necessary to consume in excess, making the excess itself, by alienation of responsibility, the causal referent invested of [...]
Forty-two years ago, on May 4, 1970, amid the bitter battle over the Vietnam War, four innocent college students: Alilson Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheur and William Schroeder were gunned down and killed and twelve others were wounded by the National Guard at Kent State University. The incident shook the idealistic counter-culture to its core [...]
The latest act of our most recent high profile American tragedy played out in real time courtroom theatrics on Friday. George Zimmerman, the reviled Trayvon Martin shooter, now charged with second-degree murder, was granted $150, 000 bond. But the real drama, igniting audible gasps in the packed courtroom, came when Zimmerman took the stand and [...]
After a lifetime of studying and practicing religion, I decided I just couldn’t take it anymore. If anyone just stopped and applied any kind of logic to how religion operates, they would have to come to the conclusion that no god would be as petty, cruel and/or illogical as the ones religions across the world depict.
