Forty years ago today, Ohio National Guardsmen murdered four unarmed students at Kent State and wounded nine others, permanently paralysing one. (CHT Making Light for the reminder.)
The students’ crime? Protesting the invasion of Cambodia (or, in some cases, walking nearby while others were protesting it).
“That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.”
Okay, it’s a fundraising appeal. But it has pretty pictures!
Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi has been making news for his pathbreaking discovery that immodest women are the cause of earthquakes.
But I believe Rita Hayworth beat him to it.
(CHT Aragorn!)
A nice answer to the what-would-prevent-warlords-from-taking-over question.
I vividly remember seeing a tv skit almost verbatim identical to this one some time in the early to mid-1970s; but the actors were Americans, the flight attendant was female, and the main POV was head-on rather than from the side. Does that ring a bell with anyone?