After he allegedly raped her, Lorena Bobbitt cut of her husband’s penis and then threw it out the car window into a field as she was driving down the road.
A woman in Bangladesh, Monju Begum, decided to up her self-defense game when she cut off her alleged attacker’s offending appendage and gave it to the police down at the station as proof of his assault.
I have to wonder what the reaction of the officer that took her report was when she walked in an plunked a severed penis on the counter.
So the protests in Egypt were successful and the sitting regime was ousted. But now the harder part comes in trying to figure out where the country goes from here.
In your average Western democracy or parliamentary system you have regular changes in leadership, but the country continues due to the systemic institutions that are in place. Your typical military coup institutes the might makes right rule and a general ends up telling everyone what to do. But in Egypt you had a pseudo spontaneous uprising of the people, who then wanted the military to take over once the old regime was out.
The only problem, at least from what I understand, is the military wasn’t exactly pining for control of the country and isn’t the best situated to take over. On top of that, I’m only aware of one instance where a military junta took power with the goal of getting a civilian government into power (Mauritania, don’t ask me why I know that).
I just hope the people of Egypt actually get what they protested for, the opportunity to determine their own future.
I came across a handful of things in the news that caught my attention today that I wanted to share and comment on. In the spirit of saving time and a li’l bit of space I threw them all together in one post.
Some time in the middle of last year my interest in politics and government checked out. I think I just got annoyed to the point where I just raised my white flag and gave up. I just couldn’t take any more of the impressive combination of hollow blathering, hypocritical yapping, and fear-mongering that has become the staple of Washington discourse.
Really interesting article on the events taking place in Pakistan right now with the ebb and flow of the Taliban. I’m sort of an international news nerd so some of you may not follow this really closely, but as I understand it, and as this article suggests to me, the conflict going on in Pakistan right now is almost as messed up as what’s been happening in the Middle East for the last 50 years, with the added element of nuclear weapons being involved.
I think many would agree that the idea of nuclear weapons in the hands of al-Qa’ida is about as scary as you can get, and if this issue isn’t handled correctly by the Pakistani government and the international community as a whole, that’s what we could end up with.
Anyway, check out the article. Its a very interesting read.
There are some really crappy people in this world. I truly hope that karma kicks them in the ass.
Tenant pays rent, landlord doesn’t pay mortgage, bank forecloses and tenant gets evicted. What happens to the landlord? Not a damn thing. What should happen to the landlord? I think they should be forced to house the evicted tenant until the tenant finds a place to live. The landlord is a piece of trash.
The most infuriating thing about the whole situation is that the place was rented out while the foreclosure procedings were going on. How can that be legal? Its stuff like this that makes me have a negative view on society. I’m glad that legislation is in the works to prevent this, but something should be done really fast to rectify the problem.
Now I know why there are people around the world that hate Americans; we’re stupid. I understand that Black Friday is a big day for the retail industry and that its extremely important to our economy, but is it really worth someone dieing to get a good deal on a Blu Ray player?
Its just hard for me to fathom the mentality behind someone willing to push and shove to get to sale items in a store to the point where someone gets trampled in the process. On top of that, when police and emergency personnel responded to the scene, people were jostling them and making it difficult for them to provide the aid the trampled employee needed. If I was one of those cops, I think I would have had a hard time not just starting to arrest people.
I don’t even know what else to say. Stuff like this just really pisses me off. Its amazing to me how easily people seem to lose perspective on what’s really important in life.