By Pennsylvania Lifers on April 21, 2011
I am sitting here on my bunk staring at the concrete floor of my cell. I can’t stop. I can’t move. It is like I am watching a movie of my life play out in my mind. All my failures, all my triumphs. Every moment clearly portrayed to its heartbreaking extreme. My God, I have [...]
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By Pennsylvania Lifers on April 21, 2011
Even after 22 ½ years of prison it is still incomprehensible to me that my life is doomed to this existence forever. Why haven’t I killed myself yet? How do I keep going? Where do I find the strength to get out of my bunk each morning and face another day of brutal pain. Regardless [...]
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By Sam Richards on April 19, 2011
This is a video that I use when I give my “Christian Invaders” talk. I think it fully captures (and provokes) what it is that Americans fear when they think about Islam and the Middle East. It’s intention is to do that, of course, and there is plenty to fear from more than a few [...]
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By Sam Richards on April 18, 2011
This is an interesting video about war over the past 1,000 years. The size of the explosions indicate how many people are estimated to have died (and this probably doesn’t include civilian deaths). What’s interesting for our (sociological) purposes is how these wars occur in the areas of notable socioeconomic development and political expansion. Empires. [...]
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By Sam Richards on April 16, 2011
This is an extremely disturbing article from Rolling Stone. It’s about a platoon of renegade soldiers who committed some heinous crimes against innocent civilians. Was some of this known to officers? Could it have been stopped? Please keep in mind that a few bad seeds do not make the entire military corrupt and criminal. In [...]
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