New Year, new me. Nah. I'm fine just the way I am. Doing the things I love. Like enjoying

a latte on the bus with some music or on a walk with a friend. My only resolution is

to enjoy more of what I love. Like switching up my usual with oat, soy, almond or coconut.

All delicious non-dairy alternatives available at Starbucks. For no extra charge. While stocks

last subject to availability. Journalists at the New York Times, a former newspaper, have

been working hard to try to figure out why there are so many mass killings in Europe and

America lately. The headline of a recent article announces their latest brilliant insight.

Mass killings may have created a contagion feeding on itself. In the article Times writer

Benedict Carrey says quote, and this is a real quote. The recent horrifying rash of massacres

suggests that public widely covered rampage killings have led to a kind of contagion, prompting

a small number of people with strong personal grievances and scant political ideology to

mine previous attacks for both methods and potential targets to express their lethal

anger and despair. Clearly then, the key to discovering the motives of these attackers

is to explore what their strong personal grievances may be. So let's take a look. When a Muslim

man slaughtered people in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida in June telling police,

I am killing people in the service of the Islamic State because I am Islamic and must murder

westerners for being infidels so that they will submit to the worldwide calibrate. It may have been

because right-wing Republicans had inspired him to feel homophobia. When a group of Islamic

men attacked at church in France and slaughtered the priest saying, Olehu Akbar, we must kill

Christians because we are Muslims attempting to establish a worldwide Islamic calibrate

through terror and death. It could have been because they'd been made angry by backward

Catholic attitudes that forced their girlfriends to sneak into back alleys to obtain illegal

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