american culture
Isn't it time to come to the realization that shooting sprees like the one recently in Santa Barbara that left six dead is simply part of American culture? Why treat it like an aberration?
Rodger did not reject the culture that bullied him. He wanted to succeed in it. Because he couldn't, he wanted to destroy it.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
I am that still, small voice -- inside, at the back -- that says, "I can." And I've pushed my way to the front, because, even a dozen years after 9/11, "the day everything changed," I'm hearing, "I can't." What has happened to us?
The politicians tortuously obstructing immigration reform in Congress have limited knowledge and little imagination to see the big picture.
We have a holiday dedicated entirely to food. Enough said.
Preserved only on grainy kinescopes (though not by NBC, which had chucked them), Sid Caesar's creations were never recycled. So millions of viewers today don't know of his legacy. Or think they don't. In fact, they see it every night.
The University of Toronto is home to the world's largest collection of photographs by the late beat poet, Allen Ginsberg.