Violence | Beth Byrnes

The Jai road

Posted on November 20, 2015 22 Comments

Last month, we took a trip to one of our favorite nearby hidden treasures. Called Ojai (oh-high) by the Chumash, its original inhabitants for hundreds of pre-Columbian years, this is a resort town tucked away in the mountains above Ventura, just miles from the Central California Coast. These pictures are from a recent trip we […]

The right to bare arms

Posted on October 9, 2015 43 Comments

Update on October 29: The police in Waco, Texas have just released extensive video footage of the shootout between two biker clubs last year that led to dozens of deaths, injuries and arrests. I suggest that those who advocate that every one of us bear arms take a good, long, hard look at that entire […]

Guilty of their own murders

Posted on August 22, 2014 20 Comments

We have had an extraordinary 2014 so far, given all the events transpiring domestically and abroad. Striking are the number of incidents involving teenagers killed for no or minor reasons. I don’t want to be too technical in discussing this, because if we zoom in too closely, we tend to get buried in the specific details […]

Methed to madness

Posted on April 11, 2014 11 Comments

This week I noticed that Oscar Pistorius’ infamous trial is getting a lot of press coverage, even though it is on the other side of the world. The heightened emotionality of that drama is indicative of the intense affect that spills out of human beings when they interface with crimes of passion. There is a world […]

The litter of the law

Posted on February 15, 2014 10 Comments

This may ramble a bit as I spin out and organize my thoughts, free-association style. So, please indulge me. It is interesting how events conflow to produce a series of thoughts or actions related to a particular topic. Earlier this week I posted about Judgment at Nuremberg (on the occasion of Oscar-winning star, Maximillian Schell’s […]