New York City Homicide Map from The New York Times.
Blame it on genes: Gangster Gene: "Males with a particular form of gene called MAOA are twice as likely to join a gang, compared to those with other forms, finds a new study of more than 2000 US teens." - Salon.
In Bangalore today, fathers who have been denied access to their children are going out on a Fathers Day rally- Times of India
Latest from Unremittent Failure- "We haven't worn a watch in years. We live every moment with the knowledge that time is slowly killing us, and the last thing we need is a ticking time bomb strapped to our person to remind us. ". I am sure soon we will see Unremittent Failure get a book deal. That good.
Why don't you tweet a birthday message to Aung San Suu Kyi? Show her some support by tweeting at 64 words or use #assk64 at Twitter. I did.
The famous words that changed the way we see the world:
"But immediately upon this I observed that, whilst I thus wished to think that all was false, it was absolutely necessary that I, who thus thought, should be somewhat; and as I observed that this truth, I think, therefore I am, was so certain and of such evidence that no ground of doubt, however extravagant, could be alleged by the sceptics capable of shaking it, I concluded that I might, without scruple, accept it as the first principle of the philosophy of which I was in search."
... Discourse On The Method, René Descartes
-The Odyssey
More than one in four of the country's men admit to being rapists; three-quarters of rapists had committed their first offense as a teenager; five percent had raped a woman or girl in the past year; almost half were repeat offenders. And Worse, any woman raped by a man over the age of 25 has a one in four chance of her attacker being HIV-positive- South Africa, despite appearances, is an anarchy.- Salon.
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