Tag: Kill

Lord Parashuram is considered as the sixth incarnation of Lord Vishnu. It is famous for them that they destroyed the then tyrannical and autocratic Kshatriyas 21 times. But do you know why Lord Parashuram did this? This gives an interesting mythology - The King of the city of Mahishmati...

I was eight years old the first time I swallowed a Percoset. I lost count of how many times I was handed them… or Oxy… or Vicodin… before I even reached ten. They made me itchy but there was something about that itch. I liked it. A prepubescent pillhead. That’s a more a...

“How many jobs can I have?” asked my six-year-old daughter, Livia. “Most people have just one, why?” I replied. “It’s just that I like teaching, but I also like the supermarket and stationery shop; I could do something different every day.” Livia, who spe...

Most of us know that pearls come from oysters, those shelled mollusks of the sea. (Pedantically, this isn’t quite true; the oysters we eat can create pearls, but most jewelry pearls actually come from other species of mollusks that are not oysters. I may still refer to these creatures as oyste...

Understanding the mindset of a killer is a complex endeavor that has puzzled psychologists, criminologists, and law enforcement professionals for decades. The psychological landscape of an individual who commits homicide can vary greatly depending on the nature of the crime, personal history, and a ...

Do you and I each have an “inner George Wallace” in us? George Wallace was the 1960s-era Alabama governor who viciously defended segregation. He went so far as to physically block black students from entering the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. It was during his reign that state ...

News of San Francisco’s decline is everywhere — articles abound discussing homelessness, drug abuse, crime, economic decline, and more. Walk through downtown San Francisco and all the contradictions are visible, often side-by-side — the history (spanning Spanish...

Meetings, ugh. Even those of us who like a good meeting have plenty of experience sitting through painful, boring, poorly-run meetings that seem to exist only to waste our time. Engineers hate meetings: they take you out of flow and (in the pre-remote days) away from your monitors so that you can li...