Some Other America, One I Do Not Know
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Some Other America, One I Do Not Know
As fellow journalist Ken Klippenstein posted, "No shit murder is bad. The [commentary and jokes] about the United CEO aren’t really about him; they’re about the rapacious healthcare system he personified and which Americans feel deep pain and humiliation about."
Why"we" want insurance executives dead
At around midnight on February 28, 1986, as the Palmes were walking home from the cinema, an unknown assailant fired several shots at them, injuring Lisbet but killing Palme. The shock to this peaceful nation of having its prime minister gunned down in the street is hard to overestimate; indeed, Palme’s murder still resonates among an entire genera
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moral philosophers, and civic-minded prudes for centuries. Although the average reader harbors no qualms about the macabre enjoyments of murderous fiction, there is something faintly unsettling about the entire enterprise.