The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: crime

  • How the Patriarchy Plays Out on Female Bodies

    Women must conform.

  • Crime Used to Be So Much Easier to Commit

    Shame on me.

  • Can People Get Any More Stupid?

    Do the right thing.

  • Little Punks All Grown Up

    You can never be completely sure of the content of someone else’s character.

  • Score One for Nature!

    Even if it were true (and it’s most definitely not) that rhino horns held medicinal properties, that doesn’t give you the right to kill them.

  • Do You Even HEAR Yourself?

    It happened again the other day. I was listening to NPR on my commute to work, and I heard something that almost made me swerve off the road. When am I ever going to learn? I can’t even tell you what the story was about, such was my level of outrage afterward. All I know…

  • A Solution to Gerrymandering

    Gerrymandering, or the deliberate manipulation of the shape of voter districts to ensure a particular political outcome, is one of the most common forms of corruption in the United States. This crime is perpetrated against the American people by both Republicans and Democrats. We all know it. It has to stop. Here’s why it hasn’t.…

  • Stupid, Stupid Boy

    So, it’s fairly certain that one of the biggest fires in Oregon at the moment was started by a 15-year-old boy playfully throwing a smoke bomb into a ravine while hiking in the woods. To hell with burn bans. The world is one big video game! Woo hoo! If we destroy everything, we just hit…

  • Fascism: The Warning Signs

    Very often, I hear people confuse Communism and Socialism and Fascism. They use the terms interchangeably, which makes me realize they really haven’t a clue as to each system’s basic tenets. They have just been taught that they mean “bad” and feel that’s all they need to know. I find this very disheartening, and potentially…

  • Peace and Quiet

    As I write this, a construction crew is tearing up the pavement on my bridge. It’s long overdue, and I’m really looking forward to not having potholes in my parking space anymore, but still, they are making an ungodly racket. I’ve actually had to resort to wearing earplugs, which is making it quite a challenge…