Archive for the 'violence' Category
Shooting Last Night
We stayed in last night and watched the charming and hilarious Lars and the Real Girl. Across the street in the park there was a huge basketball contest that had been going on since before I got home from work, tons of kids shooting hoops.
Sometime around 8:30 or 9:00 we heard a familiar POP [...]
Iraqi Women Raped at Abu Ghraib
UPDATE
From alex in comments:
Brendan-
I don’t think those photos show an actual rape by U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
I remember photos from a military rape fetish website being picked up by Al-Jazeera in ‘04 or so when Abu Ghraib broke. I think these are from the same photographer or website:
1.The uniforms are wrong- those are the [...]
Burma
Via Suburban Guerilla. Must see.
Read More..>>Friday Videos: NWA
Straight Outta Compton
Fuck Tha Police
And then there’s NWA, who would just as soon shoot you as look at you. These guys scared the fucking hell out of me when I was a kid, but I loved it anyway.
And Another…
Man shot dead in SW Phila.
An unidentified man was shot to death last night at 49th Street and Chester Avenue, Southwest Philadelphia, police said. The victim was shot at 9:46 p.m. and died at the scene shortly after. Police said they had no suspects.
That’s where we pick up the trolley.
Bullet Points
It’s been mighty slow here at brendancalling lately, save for a few choice shots at Arlen Specter and a tour of my totally random sense of humor.
Part of it’s the heat and the summer doldrums, part of it’s the natural cycle of creativity, part of it… well, whatever.
Over at Philly Bits, Ray has [...]
Verschärfte Vernehmung
The Face of a Torturer
Johnson likes Lagouranis, she said, because he is gentle.
Greg Djerian on Tony Lagouranis, one of the torturers employed by the US.
“At every point, there was part of me resisting, part of me enjoying,” Lagouranis said. “Using dogs on someone, there was a tingling throughout my body. If you saw the reaction [...]
Our Allies
Warning: graphic, nsfw. The worst thing I have ever seen.
And as so many have said before me what digby says.
And the Democrats are sending the motherfucker a blank check? For this?
WTF?
A Moment of Silence? Why?
Yesterday on my way home from work, I heard the our Governor was asking for a state-wide moment of silence for the victims of the Virginia tech shooting rampage. Why?
Look, I am just as shocked and horrified by the carnage as anyone else, but you know what? Here’s what happened in Baghdad the [...]
Leon Blackwell
More on the young man who was murdered outside my window:
Leon Blackwell’s family moved to Williamsport in 1998 to get away from the dangers of Philadelphia. They moved back a year and a half ago to be with an ill family member.
The return proved fatal for the 19-year-old Blackwell.
Last week, as he sat on an [...]
