Overnight the Associated Press reported on plans that Penn State have tabled to physically alter the site where Jerry Sandusky abused his 10 recorded victims over 15 years. The link is here and other viewpoints should be readily available at Google News on the topic.
– CBG
He talks about the upcoming movie, “Precious” and how working on it brought back memories of the horrific childhood he survived. I really enjoyed this quote from Perry: “I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you…
The video testimony of a 21 year old in Texas who was raped aged 8, tied to a tree and set on fire, named his alleged attacker, a convicted paedophile following an attack on a second child. Following years of skin graft operations the victim subseqently died from cancer last year. Texan authorities substituted the original charge to felony murder in a…
Really, there are two things you can do to fight falling for misinformation. You could try to never be angry, but I don’t think that’s realistic. There are things to be angry about, rightfully. We can’t go through live just not feeling anything.
The thing I think we can do, and the thing I work hard at myself, is staying humble. Never assume you “know” everything, that you never make mistakes, that there is nothing more for you to learn. That’s how you fight misinformation, and it’s also really helpful when it comes to fighting negative thoughts, depression, anxiety, etc.
Who knows, maybe in the current system there really was no hope for Jordan and many like him. That’s hardly a reason to celebrate his death and the person who killed him. It should be a wake-up call about how poor our current system is and a push for systemic change. Unfortunately, that’s a serious discussion that too many people in politics are not interested in having.
