Some puzzles
You might say the whole Boston bombing story is a puzzlement, the big question being “why?” It’s easy to speculate—and I’ve done so myself—but I hope we’ll be able to find out a lot more as the days go on. … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Violence
Looking into the eyes of evil
Here’s a piece about how one of the most badly wounded victims of Monday’s bombing, twenty-seven-year-old Jeff Bauman, looked into the eyes of perpetrator Tamerlan Tsarnaev as he placed a bomb at his feet. Bauman apparently was able to describe … Continue reading →
The Boston bomber chase
Anyone who’s been watching the news knows what’s been going down in Boston. I was up till very late trying to absorb it all, hoping against hope that bomber #2 would be caught. So far, nothing doing on that. Boston … Continue reading →
Breaking…
I’m still awake and watching the news because there’s been so much drama for the past couple of hours in Boston. I’m hoping against hope that the following story, which is being reported on Fox, is actually true: one of … Continue reading →
Two possible suspects?
At this point I hesitate to report on “news” connected with the Boston bombings, because so much released by the MSM about the aftermath of this story has proven false. So take the following with more than a grain of … Continue reading →
Breaking news: suspect arrested
We’ve had false reports about this sort of thing before, but… A suspect has been arrested in the Boston bombings, identified by video. No doubt more will be coming on this, but that’s all there is as of now. UPDATE … Continue reading →
High Noon
[NOTE: The following case is one of the reasons I think the ricin letters may have been sent by someone out for revenge.] “High Noon” is such a dramatic movie, it’s easy to forget what starts the whole thing rolling: … Continue reading →
And then there’s ricin…
…apparently sent in letters to President Obama and Senator Roger Wicker (R). The incident not only reminds us of 9/11—after the WTC attacks, you may recall, there were a series of anthrax-letters to politicians—but these ricin-letters were intercepted as a … Continue reading →
More information on the Boston bombs
This might have some meaning as a clue, although a rather non-specific one: The explosives used to kill three people and injure 176 at the Boston Marathon on Monday were most likely some kind of “pressure-cooker” devices that sent sharp … Continue reading →
What “sense of safety”?
While in the car yesterday I was listening to some Boston-based talk shows, and I heard some people going on and on about their shock at what happened at the marathon, and how it destroyed the sense of safety they … Continue reading →
Some of the Boston bombing victims
Here’s some information about the eight-year-old Dorchester boy who was killed, and whose other family members were injured. Only one person in the entire family of five, his brother, escaped physical injury, but he is understandably severely traumatized psychologically. Very … Continue reading →
Explosions at Boston Marathon
[UPDATE 9:40: Now we’re hearing more about the terrible injuries, which include a lot of amputations. I haven’t watched the more graphic images, and don’t intend to. But it occurs to me that one of the few pluses of this … Continue reading →