Thirty years ago teenager John Daniel McCollum shot and killed himself in his parents’ house while listening to the Ozzy Osbourne record Blizzard of Oz. When his grieving parents discovered that the album included the song “Suicide Solution” they proceeded with a lawsuit against Osbourne, arguing that the song was a proximate cause of their […]
scapegoat
Dontcha just hate that weather guy?
Scapegoating is an indefensible practice: blaming one person for something bad that they are not responsible for. And yet we do it all the time. One surprisingly common example involves blaming meteorologists and weather people for the weather. I’m not talking about blaming them when they get the forecast wrong. Rather, I’m talking about blaming them […]
