Random Critical Analysis News Today

By Handwaving Freakoutery Repeatedly in the press, we see “it’s the guns, it’s the guns, it’s the guns” as the explanation for homicide in the United States, but this rhetoric only serves to obscure the actual homicide problem. I do not believe that black Americans are more inherently violent than a

Councilmember Dan Strauss recently informed me that the Chief of the Seattle Police Department Adrian Diaz attributed a large part of the surge in gun violence to road rage. And so it didn't surprise me to find this story in the Seattle Times: "Shots fired in road rage confrontation near lower West Seattle Bridge." I'm still of the opinion that this behavior can be blamed on how cars are advertised: always on empty roads, always...