Don’t forget anal bleaching. (*cringe* Dear God, kill me now for even typing those friggin’ words.)

“you don’t know why you let that guy go without shooting him dead and stuffing him in some bushes between cambridge and watertown.” Awful goddamn literal for a poem that is “more than you think it is.” Yes, there IS a big difference between empathy and condoning an act. Sadly, this missed the empathy mark like a mother fucker.

Ditto to all the women above. I’m 5’7” and very naturally 110lbs. So frackin’ tired of being looked down on and shit-talked (almost always by females…go figure), told to eat, or faced with the audacity of people who have openly accused me of being anorexic “because that’s the only way someone could be so skinny.” I spent the first three decades of my life APOLOGIZING to rude asses who seemed to go out of their way to make me feel bad for my genetic build. I may be slender (and apparently nonexistent) but my feelings aren’t…. Women come in all sizes, and that INCLUDES sizes 0-2.

Pretty well sums it up.

Oops, looks like you had a couple grammatical errors in your comment. here, let me help:  “They need to start actually monitoring the [comments] instead of letting people post whatever crap they want. [I am] just pathetic.” You’re welcome.

They came over with their family in late 2001/early 2002 on immigrant status. A couple articles I read said 2 or 3 years ago (can’t remember exactly when, off hand) the older brother had gone back to the Chechnyan region for 6 months, then returned to the US; however, those two articles are the only mention I’ve seen about it, so not really sure. Neither article specified why he went back, either. Easy to automatically jump to “obvious” conclusions in the aftermath but it could have just been to visit his father, who had returned to Russia years early. *shrug* I don’t know, I just know these two weren’t lifelong radical Muslims, Islamic extremists, whatever, who recently came over to perpetrate the bombings and murders. They were, dare I say, normal people who lead normal lives. Somewhere along the way the older brother lost his shit, though, became devout/extremist and, imo, dragged his brother down with him. We need to feel anger because it’s easier to deal with than the confusion and hurt, so to try to make sense of it all we glom on to the Muslim, foreigner, Chechnyan, etc, aspects of it all. What would have happened had these been two Buddhists who immigrated from Myanmar as children, or agnostics from Sweden? I don’t know, I’m rambling. They’re guilty as shit of a heinous crime but I can’t get past how little damn sense this all makes, particularly with the 19 year old.

Which ‘him’, this one? Because he was a whopping 6-7 years old when he came stateside. Or are you referring to his brother, the one who was the ripe old age of 14 at the time?  Good thing you’re Canadian or your comment might seem, oh, I don’t know, stupid?

Huh, pretty sure Freud would have something to say about your post.

“A trial still has to happen and the people who were injured are still injured. Get back to life.” So, yeah, like, um, fuck it? because, you know? I mean? let’s, like, just let murders happen? and murders, like, get away with it because? I mean, like…oh my gawd, whatEVERRRRRRRRRRRR. Right on, TomasBuzz. Have an extra ego stroke on me.

Wouldn’t a father know his sons? Let’s roll out the laundry list of murderers, spree killer, serial killers, rapists, cult leaders, suicide bombers (ad nauseum) and see how many of their parents saw it coming and spoke up in advance to prevent it from happening.  It’s fine, I’ll wait right here while you compile that information. Their father is defending them because he comes from a region that has historically, actively and unabashedly murder dissidents, and because the killers are/were HIS CHILDREN. His reaction is expected and completely understandable. Denial and refute perhaps hurts his heart just a little bit less than reality. … That doesn’t change the fact, however, that his sons are guilty.