Methodical Massacre: Horror And Heroics: December 15, 2012|By EDMUND H. MAHONY and DAVE ALTIMARI, emahony@courant.com, The Hartford Courant
Adam Lanza blasted his way into the Sandy Hook Elementary School. He fired a half-dozen thunderous rounds from a semiautomatic rifle to open a hole big enough to step through in one of the school’s glass doors. Continue reading Methodical Massacre: Horror And Heroics
The Tiger
By William Blake
1757-1827
TIGER, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire? Continue reading Review of Life of Pi by Selma Duckler
Like the rest of the public I have been watching the coverage of the Newtown, CT rampage by a single 20 y.o. who is described as having had a mental disorder. Mental Health commentators have expressed many opinions about why this may have happened, why this individual in their terms “snapped”. Some, like a cautious psychiatrist that I heard during the day respond to Chris Matthews was reluctant to comment without having more information but he did, wisely in my opinion, emphasize that most schizophrenics were not Continue reading Bitterness, Retaliatory Action and Apocalyptic Mass Murder by Henry Friedman
Our hearts go out to those in Sandy Hook and Newton – once fairy tale communities. We salute the brave teachers, the clergy, the strong and empathic citizens, and most of all, we send our deepest condolences to the parents and families who lost their children and to the families of those adults who died.
One common theme over the past several days since this latest tragedy has Continue reading The Sandy Hook Massacre: What We Can Do by Jane Hall
Click Here to Read: A Canary in the Coal Mine by Neal Spira on his Deeper Look blog on the Chicago Now blogs on July 26, 2012,
Neal Spira
Click Here to Read: Connecticut school shooting: Resources for parents By Thomas Curwen in the Los Angeles on December 14, 2012.
| People gather for a prayer vigil at St. Rose Church in Newtown, Conn., on Friday evening. (Emmanuel Dunand, AFP/Getty Images / December 14, 2012) |
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Click Here to Read: Can Neuroscience Predict Human Behavior? by Judith G. Edersheim, J.D., M.D. Written with Justin T. Baker, M.D., Ph.D., and Bruce H. Price, M.D. in the Huffington Post on December 14, 2012.
Judith Edersheim
