mass shootings

Mass Shootings, Rampages, And Cascades of Failure

Michael Siegel May 26, 2022

The causes of mass shootings don't fit neatly into ideological priors and there is no one clear-cut...

OT Contributor Network: Spheres of Influence Podcast w/Dennis Sanders

Andrew Donaldson March 31, 2021

The latest Spheres of Influence Podcast from our friend and Ordinary Times contributor Dennis Sanders.

On Our Incessant Need For A Big Bad big bad

On Our Incessant Need For A Big Bad

Andrew Donaldson March 24, 2021

We do love us some Big Bad, don't we? Socially, politically, historically, interpersonally...life is just simpler when...

Speaking of Terror x-terrorism

Speaking of Terror

Starla Jackson August 23, 2019

If certain kinds of violence demand more from us, defining and describing violence becomes charged with power.

The Twilight of Our Candlelight Vigils IFRL-Mindiv-pietro-tebaldi-431077-unsplash

The Twilight of Our Candlelight Vigils

Tod Kelly June 11, 2014

School shootings and rampage killings used to be moments of collective shock and horror, leading to long...

Chris in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Once upon a time, when I lived in certain neighborhoods and took buses from certain stops (and going…
Jaybird in reply to Slade the Leveller on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025I don't believe he was spouting off. He was merely present and, when asked to leave, refused to. The…
Slade the Leveller in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Of course he can stay. Or he could hold his own press conference if he wanted to spout off.
Jaybird in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025I'm not talking about whether the alleged death was justified. Who can say? People are innocent unti…
Dark Matter in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Austin_Metcalf I've been following that one and I don't thi…
Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025In "Where are the Free Speech Abolutists?" discourse, apparently Karmelo Anthony is having a press c…
Dark Matter in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025I wonder if Trump has gotten involved and is giving "ignore due process and make this happen" orders…
Jaybird in reply to pillsy on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Well, do everything you can in the meantime to explain how "freedom of speech doesn't mean *THAT*" t…
pillsy in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025I never for a second believed that my question would be anything but rhetorical when the day came
Jaybird in reply to CJColucci on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025The first happened during my childhood (note, I'm in my early 50s). Why do you ask?