by Clarissa Cole | Aug 4, 2016 | culture, media, weird/science |
In the wave of recent events with a Playmate of the Year publicly body-shaming an unsuspecting woman, I’ve been acutely reminded of how quickly bullying, especially cyber bullying, can cross the criminal line – how “innocently” a person can go from an insecure heckler...
by Clarissa Cole | Jul 27, 2016 | art, culture, media, religion and belief, weird/science |
In 2011, Norway faced a mass murder event that was unparalleled in recent history. One man – Anders Breivik – traveled to Utoya Island (just off Norway’s coast), gunned down 77 people and wounded 200 others. The worst part of the tragedy is that the victims were...
by Clarissa Cole | Jul 19, 2016 | culture, weird/science |
Anders Behring Breivik was born in February of 1979 in Oslo, Norway to a nurse and a civil economist who worked as a diplomat in London, and then Paris. This would have been a charmed beginning if it weren’t for the acrimonious divorce that tore his parents apart less...
by Clarissa Cole | Jul 13, 2016 | culture, weird/science |
In the wake of the recent mass murder in Orlando, Florida, it feels important to me to shed some light on how the popular media has handled (and always seems to handle) mass murderers. Orlando, following the shooting [photo by Phelen Ebenhack; Associated Press]Whether...
by Clarissa Cole | Jul 7, 2016 | culture, media, movies |
The third film in the Purge franchise, The Purge: Election Year, hit theaters, appropriately enough, over the July 4th holiday weekend. While straight-up horror isn’t really my genre (I’m more into psychological thrillers, naturally), there was something about The...
