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News & ArtsMonday, November 30, 2009
Crime While We're All On The Lookout For Black Guys With Moles...
Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:27 PM
...let's all keep our eyes peeled for white guys with handlebar mustaches who stink of gasoline:
Bainbridge Island police said they are looking for a man who they said threatened to kill a 39-year-old and her 12-year-old son early Sunday morning. Police said the woman's ex-boyfriend broke into her home, poured gasoline on the woman and her son, and threatened to ignite it. The victims managed to escape. The suspect is Edward Mark Olsen, 49, who was released from prison in California in October after serving time for assaulting the victim, police said. Olsen found the victim living on Bainbridge and assaulted her two weeks ago in her home, officers said. Police said Olsen should be considered a threat to the community and that anyone who sees him or knows where he is should call 911 immediately.
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yah we could be searching for a white guy but really we're searching for a pyromaniac lobster with a handlebar mustache...ewwww
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Psychopaths Among Us
http://www.hare.org/links/saturday.html
For his first paper, now a classic, Hare had his subjects watch a countdown timer. When it reached zero, they got a "harmless but painful" electric shock while an electrode taped to their fingers measured perspiration. Normal people would start sweating as the countdown proceeded, nervously anticipating the shock. Psychopaths didn't sweat. They didn't fear punishment -- which, presumably, also holds true outside the laboratory. In Without Conscience, he quotes a psychopathic rapist explaining why he finds it hard to empathize with his victims: "They are frightened, right? But, you see, I don't really understand it. I've been frightened myself, and it wasn't unpleasant."
In another Hare study, groups of letters were flashed to volunteers. Some of them were nonsense, some formed real words. The subject's job was to press a button whenever he recognized a real word, while Hare recorded response time and brain activity. Non-psychopaths respond faster and display more brain activity when processing emotionally loaded words such as "rape" or "cancer" than when they see neutral words such as "tree." With psychopaths, Hare found no difference. To them, "rape" and "tree" have the same emotional impact -- none.
http://www.hare.org/links/saturday.html
For his first paper, now a classic, Hare had his subjects watch a countdown timer. When it reached zero, they got a "harmless but painful" electric shock while an electrode taped to their fingers measured perspiration. Normal people would start sweating as the countdown proceeded, nervously anticipating the shock. Psychopaths didn't sweat. They didn't fear punishment -- which, presumably, also holds true outside the laboratory. In Without Conscience, he quotes a psychopathic rapist explaining why he finds it hard to empathize with his victims: "They are frightened, right? But, you see, I don't really understand it. I've been frightened myself, and it wasn't unpleasant."
In another Hare study, groups of letters were flashed to volunteers. Some of them were nonsense, some formed real words. The subject's job was to press a button whenever he recognized a real word, while Hare recorded response time and brain activity. Non-psychopaths respond faster and display more brain activity when processing emotionally loaded words such as "rape" or "cancer" than when they see neutral words such as "tree." With psychopaths, Hare found no difference. To them, "rape" and "tree" have the same emotional impact -- none.
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@4, I agree. Definitely not a handlebar. Handlebars can be twirled, like evil villains tying damsels to the tracks.
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Handlebars also require wax to be sufficiently twirl-able. I see no wax on the lobster's facial hair.
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@8, thank you!
Now if we could just isolate the 'psychopath gene' and splice it into cows and pigs we might have something...
Now if we could just isolate the 'psychopath gene' and splice it into cows and pigs we might have something...
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