Random Thoughts About Violence

World history has given us Israelis versus Palestinians, Sunnis versus Shiites, Hutus versus Tutsis, Germans versus Jews, and so on...there are too many to name here.

But locally, it seems like lately, Red Sox versus Yankees is getting just as contentious.

http://merriam.ab.mec.edu/clasroom/handlett.html

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2004/
241004distortedmentality.htm

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/24468147/

http://www.northjersey.com/sports/yankees/
YanksSix_rivalry_spawns_punks.html

Seriously? It's not religion, politics, culture or land. It's baseball. No wonder the rest of the world thinks we're a bunch of jackasses.