The least attractive blogs are those that consist almost entirely of links to sites that the author thinks interesting. I try to avoid this by plagiarising worthwhile items (sometimes, shamelessly, without crediting the source) and adding my own gloss.
Here’s a case where it’s best just to put in a link and then shut up.
We all sympathise with—and share—the incomprehension of the parents of a suicide bomber who cannot understand how their son has come to commit an act which seems to them utterly foreign to his nature. A lucid and convincing essay in The Guardian by Kathleen Taylor attempts an explanation.
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Many, many thanks for the link to that Guardian article by Kathleen Taylor.
It seems to describe what happens to people when they become disabled and are forced on to a disability income - at least in Nova Scotia (Canada).
The five core techniques: isolation, control, incertainty, repetition and emotional manipulation, are all employed by the Department of Community Services here.
Really? That seems a little harsh. The DCS are hardly in the business of training killers.
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