“There's something known as the magical age, between nine and 12, when a child's psyche is more malleable.”Tagged: Magical Age, Childhood
“I guess now I know what a parent feels like when their kid grows up. Someone who's depended on you for so long and then suddenly they're off living their own life and they don't really need you anymore.”Tagged: Empty Nest Syndrome
“The Mountain Man seems to be a confluence of several local legends. Some say he's part of the backwoods Appalachian population, others say he's a confederate holdout trying to start a second civil war to turn brother against brother. But the one thing they all could agree upon is that when you go…”Tagged: Mountain Man, Appalachia, Civil War, Lynyrd Skynyrd, folklore
“You know Garcia, she carries a laptop, not a gun. She can't even look at crime scene photos without needing pictures of panda bears to counter balance them.”Tagged: Laptop, Gun, Crime Scene Photos
“The business of incarceration is extremely lucrative and virtually recession proof.”Tagged: Incarceration, Private Prisons
“Although the observable universe is continually expanding, there's really no way of knowing the whole thing is gonna ultimately collapse into one gargantuan Black Hole.”Tagged: Black hole, Universe, Entropy
“You'd be surprised how many killers do what they do because of their parents.”Tagged: Developmental Psychology, killers, Parents
“Documented examples include high-functioning autistics who collect child porn to pretend to plan a school shooting. They know that there's power in those images and those actions, but for them, there's no paraphilia behind it. They don't derive pleasure from it. What I don't see is someone who's…”Tagged: Autism, school shootings, Paraphilias, explosives
“Actually, some studies indicate that men take twice as many selfies as women 'cause it's considered to be an acceptable form of male vanity.”Tagged: Men, Women, Selfies, Male Vanity
“I'm gonna walk you through a scenario and your face is gonna tell me how close I am. From the moment I arrested you, you watched and waited for the right time to take your revenge. When you learned I was going to Mexico, you took it. You and Lindsey framed me for murder so I'd be put in prison and…”Tagged: Mexico, Prison, manipulation
“Medieval medical practitioners believed that chickens could absorb illness. They would rub the birds all over the bodies of the diseased in an attempt to rid them of their sickness.”Tagged: Medieval Europe, Illness, sickness, Quack Cures, Folk Medicine