I’ve avoided this topic in the last few weeks, while the reports of the utter lawlessness and horror out of Kushchevskaya and the surrounding region kept coming. The almost total power of the criminals operating there is startling, the details are like something out of good movie combined with a bad dream: how breaking downContinue reading “Kushchevskaya massacre: why it happened”
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Speaking of scourge: the Kushchevskaya massacre
Don’t read this if you don’t think you ought to. In case you haven’t heard about it – and if you’re not in Russia, you probably haven’t – twelve people were massacred in the village of Kushchevskaya on November 4th, during a holiday weekend. Most of the victims, who had gathered to celebrate November 4thContinue reading “Speaking of scourge: the Kushchevskaya massacre”
Steven Hayes: is the “I’m against the death penalty, but…” discussion appropriate here?
I shouldn’t be in any condition to write anything about the Petit family massacre. But I am. I’m working on a new play, a tragedy, and I have found that my mind has begun working in completely new ways. I think about evil – banal evil, sophisticated evil – and I let it in asContinue reading “Steven Hayes: is the “I’m against the death penalty, but…” discussion appropriate here?”
It’s an unpleasant, stressful sort of Monday
So I want to make sure that yours is unpleasant as well…
So I suppose I need to talk about this Susan Faludi “Electra” crap
I mean, just in case this whole Terminator 2 phase of my feminist blogging “career” is later described in children’s textbooks as merely “those months Antonova aired out her grievances regarding the writing of Camille Paglia – and posted funny pictures of cats”. Here’s a funny picture of a cat: Anyway, the points is, thisContinue reading “So I suppose I need to talk about this Susan Faludi “Electra” crap”
Natalia A. 