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The media is still living off Andrada’s suicide, Andrada being the emo girl I mentioned in my previous post, but now the sensationalism seems to be wearing off and that leaves room for some more serious and balanced comments. It’s not easy to pick them out of the sea of idiocy, but at least they […]

The media from here is flooded with news about how this or that influenced a teen to do a certain thing. Not that talk about such influences isn’t relatively common anyway, but lately there have been several events that they could use as examples, like the 13 year old guy who killed one of his […]

There was an article yesterday in a newspaper from here praising a special team of doctors that has been created in Iasi to deal with the very large number of suicide attempts. The title was “They Are the Guardian Angels of Suicidal People” and there was a lot of talking about how they “save” their […]

In today’s world, terrorism works. Terrorists might not accomplish their final objectives for now, but time is on their side as long as their intermediate ones are accomplished, and they are. I say that because the intermediate objective of any terrorist organization is gaining more adepts, and a great way to do that is to […]

If normal market rules apply here as well, the value of ass kissing should be plummeting these days. So many people seem bent on drowning in praise anybody who’s in a perceived position of authority and might help them in some way… While looking for the components I wanted for my new computer I read […]