Thugs

Listen and understand. That terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

—Character Kyle Reese from the film, The Terminator

In today's news, two stories caught my attention:


 In Connecticut, the lone survivor of a home invasion stood stoically in the courtroom as the guilty verdict was read for the second of his two assailants.  He had already attended the first trial of the other offender some months ago (also ending in a guilty verdict), and listened again to the grim account of how his family was brutalized, then murdered in the sanctity of their suburban home. During their separate trials, each of the two felons blamed the other for the crime.


Jules Breton's painting Fisherman's Daughter is returning to France. The painting was stolen from the Douai Beaux-Arts Museum in northern France, among other items looted by German troops during the first World War. In 2010, it was discovered in New York when an art dealer was preparing it for auction. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who worked the case, did not provide details on where the painting was in the decades since it was stolen.


The Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) has a long list of symptoms, including:

1)   Belief in being entitled to special treatment

2)   Expectations that others will automatically go along with whatever he or she wants

3)   Inability to recognize or identify with the feelings of others

4)   Consider themselves better than others and above the law

 5) Take advantage of others to achieve






Highfalutin language for thugs and bullies.