Showing posts with label violence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label violence. Show all posts

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Violence Interrupters

Ameena Matthews appeared on the Colbert Report to talk about her project to stop violence in Chicago. Frontline aired a two hour documentary on her and her group, and their mission of peace. If you don't know who she is, you should.

Friday, July 1, 2011

Supreme Court on violent video games

Jeffery H. Anderson argues that the got it wrong when the supreme court struck down a California law banning the sale of violent video games to children. Jon Stewart offered this criticism of the decision where he demonstrates just how violent these video games can be. Stewart makes the point that it is ok to disembowel a women in a video game, but if she had a nipple slip during then it would be something that could prohibited from being sold to children.