August 3, 2020
art by William Maynard

Artist – Christopher Radke

June 8, 2020
art by William Maynard

Artist – William Maynard

June 8, 2020
art by Ed Lyon

Artist – Ed Lyon

June 8, 2020
James Harris art

Artist – James Harris

May 28, 2020

We Were Conditioned to Cruelty: Peter Pan

May 23, 2020

Book Review – City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles

May 23, 2020
by Alan Whitfield

Artist – Alan Whitfield

May 11, 2020

We Were Conditioned to Cruelty: Rumpelstiltskin

Pretty people are nice; unattractive people are bad. At least, that‘s what our fairy tales signal, and what our secret lizard brains have always thought. A prime example of pretty=good; ugly=bad is “Cinderella.” Our contemporary Walt Disney version of Cinderella portrays the stepmother and stepsisters as ugly, as grotesque. And they are mean indeed. Our pink-cheeked heroine is beautiful inside and out.
May 8, 2020

We Were Conditioned to Cruelty: Cinderella

Pretty people are nice; unattractive people are bad. At least, that‘s what our fairy tales signal, and what our secret lizard brains have always thought. A prime example of pretty=good; ugly=bad is “Cinderella.” Our contemporary Walt Disney version of Cinderella portrays the stepmother and stepsisters as ugly, as grotesque. And they are mean indeed. Our pink-cheeked heroine is beautiful inside and out.
April 29, 2020

We Were Conditioned to Cruelty – Rapunsel

How can we continue to allow overcrowded jail and prison cells? How did we allow the criminal justice system to increase prison terms so long that “once in, never out”? Perhaps our culture embraced it and taught us from an early age, taught us through children’s stories and poems and songs…
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