Anger

Fans eager to pay for soccer stadium The Baltimore Sun has weighed in against a proposed soccer stadium in Prince George's County ("Another stadium?" editorial, Feb. 25). I must disagree with this conclusion. Major League Soccer is healthy and growing even in these very tough times. This soccer league is here to stay. And D.C. United is a flagship team for the league. A study funded by the Maryland Stadium Authority clearly finds this project would be a net benefit for the county and state.

Chalk up another two lives to Driving While Angry. Last week's fatal accident on Interstate 270, in which two occupants of a Chrysler Sebring convertible were forced into and over a guardrail after exchanging obscene gestures with the driver of a pickup truck, was a particularly grisly example of the consequences of road rage. And a ridiculous reason to die. The crash left Christian M. Luciano, 28, and Lindsay L. Bender, 25, mangled and lifeless on the side of a highway in Frederick County.

Sept. 11 falls on a Tuesday this year. It will be the first time since that other Sept. 11, six years ago. Do you remember? Can you recall how difficult it was to even conceive of going forward from that moment? The events of that day had so thoroughly lacerated us that it seemed as if, in some small corner of our collective soul, the clock had stopped. In that corner, it would forever be 8:46 EDT on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Do you remember? If so, then the world as it stands six years later must come as something of a shock.

WHERE'S THE anger? That's the question callers and letter-writers to The Sun have posed in the 13 days since five women were executed in East Baltimore's Belair-Edison community, allegedly by members of an O'Donnell Heights drug gang.Specifically, cantankerous citizens want to know why those who expressed such outrage at the recent fatal police shootings of Larry Hubbard and Eli McCoy have been noticeably silent on the deaths of Mary McNeil Matthews, Mary Helen Collien, Makisha Jenkins, Trennell Alston and LaVanna Spearman.

It could have been me.That's the first thing that came to mind when I read about a guy named Guy who was arrested in Chippewa Falls, Wis., for shooting his washing machine.Seems old Guy got in some kind of a beef with the machine, which escalated to the point where he pushed it down a flight of stairs, into the driveway, pulled out a gun and shot it three times.The story didn't say what the spat was over, who started it, what condition the washer is in or if this type of thing goes on a lot in Chippewa Falls.

Here is an excerpt of an editorial from the Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald, which was published Monday.WHEN WORLD attention focuses on Australia before and during the Sydney Olympics next year, international interest in the position of Aboriginal Australians will intensify.It is the story the foreign media will want to explore, raising the specter of possible Aborigine-inspired boycott action.Now, barely a year away, Aboriginal leaders are talking not of boycott but a more subtle strategy -- that of shaming Australian governments in the eyes of the world for their mistreatment and neglect of Aborigines.

Previously undisclosed conversations and letters by Timothy J. McVeigh to his younger sister before the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City portray him as so deeply frustrated and angry that when the bomb exploded on April 19, 1995, his family suspected him almost immediately.His sister, Jennifer McVeigh, told FBI investigators she had an "eerie feeling" he was involved. His father, William McVeigh, said he had worried that his son would do something to get himself in serious trouble and added that his ex-wife, McVeigh's mother, ,, thought her son "did the bombing."

KHARTOUM, Sudan -- For perhaps the first time in his life, Ghazi Suleiman is defending the same cause as the Sudanese government he detests.A lawyer and human rights activist, Suleiman represents the pharmaceutical company that the United States bombed Thursday in retaliation for terrorist attacks at two U.S. embassies in East Africa.The Clinton administration claims the El Shifa factory was producing a chemical weapons component and was tied to the exiled Saudi businessman it holds responsible for the embassy bombings.

Two college students are walking down a corridor. One is bumped and called a profanity; he accepts it and ambles on. The second gets red-faced and raises his middle finger in defiance.The first is a Northerner, the second is from the South.Their responses, from a University of Michigan study, are repeated with dozens more male students, and a pattern emerges: Southerners more often respond with anger; Northerners with amusement.The study isn't the only one that seems to defy the image of Southerners as courtly and to suggest that, when it comes to defending their honor, they may be more prone to anger -- and violence.

LOS ANGELES - From his second-floor office on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, entrepreneur David Morgan has a dream.His dream is that someday whites and blacks, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, and the rest of God's children will take a foam baton in hand and beat the living daylights out of a 5-foot dummy.Another critical part of the dream is that they'll pay his new business, Anger Behind Closed Doors, for the privilege. For less than $10 a session, clients can enter one of two padded, sound-retaining "venting rooms," where they can scream, kick, punch and swing their way to better mental health, Morgan says.

It began with those expressions of hatred for President Barack Obama heard at campaign rallies in late October. During the weeks before and after the inauguration, it was muted. Since then it has gained in intensity, breadth and momentum. It underlies the "birther" movement that questions his citizenship; the belief that the president hates whites; the claim that he is another Hitler, a communist, a socialist and a liar. Call it a contagion of anger and fear - an infection of deep anxiety and militant resentment.

Fans eager to pay for soccer stadium The Baltimore Sun has weighed in against a proposed soccer stadium in Prince George's County ("Another stadium?" editorial, Feb. 25). I must disagree with this conclusion. Major League Soccer is healthy and growing even in these very tough times. This soccer league is here to stay. And D.C. United is a flagship team for the league. A study funded by the Maryland Stadium Authority clearly finds this project would be a net benefit for the county and state.

Her rage brought her worldwide fame, multiplatinum sales and Grammy Awards. With 1995's Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette paired explicit, angry lyrics with grunge-laced pop-rock that echoed her bitterness. The once-innocuous Canadian dance-pop star managed to strike a chord with a generation and become an unlikely superstar. Vitriolic smashes such as "You Oughta Know," "You Learn" and "Ironic" became anthems. Now thirteen years later, after five albums that more or less recast her as an even-tempered romantic, Morissette still can't escape that "angry girl" image.

There's nothing like feeling betrayed by an old and trusted friend to get your blood going. Last week, I said Sears kicked the pooch by bungling its response to Michael Burnett's repeated pleas to fix or replace his faulty 2 1/2 -month-old Sylvania LCD TV. By the overwhelming feedback I've received, you would have thought I said that Sears tortured, maimed and then killed the pooch. Burnett's tale of canceled appointments, rescheduled service calls and corporate confusion elicited a level of anger, resentment, frustration, hurt and bitterness from readers that I haven't seen in two years of writing this column - far above the reaction even to other repeat corporate offenders who have botched customer service as badly, if not worse, than Sears did in this case.

I never saw my father wear a flag pin, but he was a patriot. He was more faithful to the United States of America than I would have been if my life had been as burdened by legally sanctioned racism. He grew up in the Jim Crow South, where his opportunities were severely limited. He attended inferior schools and was taught to be deferential to whites. He endured vicious bigotry inside the newly integrated Army, where he served as a lieutenant, and out. When he returned from Korea as a combat veteran, he bought a baby blue 1953 Chevrolet.

Ellen from Baltimore, Tim from Waverly and Jo-Ann from Annapolis joined more than 300 fellow callers, listeners and fans of WYPR's freshly canceled The Marc Steiner Show last night to display their anger in hopes that station managers would reverse their decision. The meeting of WYPR's community advisory board was the first since Steiner was fired early this month and, for many, the first opportunity to publicly vent their anger over the firing of Steiner, the longtime host of the station's lunchtime public affairs talk show.

YESTERDAY, WE ARGUED THAT GOV. Martin O'Malley had to do something about the state's structural budget deficit, and that cutting state spending would have made people just as angry as tax increases. On our Web site, baltimoresun.com, Mark, of Edgewater, wrote: People are mad because Mr. O'Malley misled them on how and who the new taxes would affect. He also railroaded this legislation down our throats by not having public hearings on the issues. Taxation without representation? Remember that?

WASHINGTON // Presidential races are intensifying on both sides, and the story lines are choice: Will Hillary hold off Barack? Can a surging Mike Huckabee go all the way? Will John McCain, left for dead a few months ago, stage a miracle comeback in New Hampshire? The campaign is playing out against a backdrop of unusually consequential issues and themes: an unpopular war, simmering fears of another terrorist strike, a visceral backlash against illegal immigrants, disgust with Washington gridlock, and a strong desire for change.

Sept. 11 falls on a Tuesday this year. It will be the first time since that other Sept. 11, six years ago. Do you remember? Can you recall how difficult it was to even conceive of going forward from that moment? The events of that day had so thoroughly lacerated us that it seemed as if, in some small corner of our collective soul, the clock had stopped. In that corner, it would forever be 8:46 EDT on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Do you remember? If so, then the world as it stands six years later must come as something of a shock.

NEW YORK -- Aubrey Huff described the mood in the Orioles dugout after the bottom of the ninth inning as a "quiet anger." Players kept their frustration to themselves, preferring to stew internally about the sequence of events that saw an apparent victory over the New York Yankees being suddenly thrown in doubt. What really could have been said anyway? With one powerful swing by Shelley Duncan, the Orioles had squandered a three-run, ninth-inning lead and another masterful pitching performance by Erik Bedard, who doesn't seem to be capable of anything else these days.