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2020-08-26 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's son charged with stabbing his 60-year-old neighbor seven times' over trash can.

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Posted by Woodrow 2020-08-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Maybe someone needs to spend a few years in another less fortunate country.

Posted by gorb 2020-08-26 00:56|| 2020-08-26 00:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Evil aside, why is it this fellow could not calculate the obvious consequences of such an act and reject it out of hand? What power is it that overrides common sense and good judgement? What is the missing element of the thought process? Acts like this appear to be all too common. Someone trained in these matters must have the answers.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-08-26 02:42|| 2020-08-26 02:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Years ago, lefty journalist Kevin Drum wrote a piece about how ingestion of lead--context of lead paint in old buildings--before age five results in deficient impulse control. Irreversible. Nobody wants to take on the question of various populations with a disproportionate number of people who might just "go off".
So if you're wondering "what was he thinking?", maybe he wasn't thinking.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2020-08-26 06:55|| 2020-08-26 06:55|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Interesting comment Richard. I've had similar thoughts about the offspring of multi-generational drug users. "Sins of the father" and so forth.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-08-26 07:12|| 2020-08-26 07:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Germ line epigenetics is what you should search for.
Although black tolerance of criminality and diverse approach to obeying the law seems to me to be more culturally taught behaviour.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-08-26 10:40|| 2020-08-26 10:40|| Front Page Top

#6 The spitting image of Talcum X.

Posted by Clyde Thraiter7206 2020-08-26 10:57|| 2020-08-26 10:57|| Front Page Top

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