Anger

The Anne Arundel Conflict Resolution Center will hold a five-week session of anger management training from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays, April 5 through May 3. Classes are designed to help participants learn to channel anger in a positive direction. Classes include group discussions and exercises, and cover topics such as identifying anger triggers, conflict styles, coping strategies and taking responsibility. Classes, which will be held at the center's offices at 2666 Riva Road in Annapolis, cost $175 and include all materials.

The father of twins acquitted of animal cruelty charges Wednesday criticized the investigation that left the young men behind bars for nearly three years, but the state's attorney's office said there were no regrets in retrying the dog-burning case. "The police are supposed to be protecting," Charles Johnson said Thursday. He reiterated arguments from defense lawyers that the brothers were wrongfully identified as suspects. But a spokesman for State's Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein said the decision was made to retry the case in part because all but one juror agreed to convict the brothers in the first trial.

Editor: In your editorial "Let Them Eat Cake", you, Mr. Kennedy, display for the public at large your curmudgeonly nature, your abject ignorance and your vitriolic bitterness. To compare teachers who have not receive their negotiated salaries for three years to Marie Antoinette is patently offensive and repugnant. You should be ashamed of yourself. Your proclivity to use your position as editor of the only local paper in Harford County to lambast the county workers and teachers is shameful.  Have you no ethics?

A deeper look into this case and the law enforcement issues related to it appeared in Thursday's newspaper. Click here for that article.  There can, in fact, be a corrective mechanism when it comes to the mob mentality of the Internet.  This week, a video was posted online of a seemingly lost and disoriented man being swarmed by a group of young people, then sucker punched, robbed, and stripped naked of his clothing on...

It's understandable that the disquiet rampant in Middle America and expressed so vividly by the so-called tea partiers should prompt such angst amongst the Guardians of Correct Thought. To Frank Rich, former theater critic turned political pundit for The New York Times, it's a matter of racism. His latest rant on that theme is titled "Welcome to Confederate History Month." In this 1,400-word column, he manages to interpret the anger of Americans opposed to Obamacare, infuriated by the continuing bailout of the fat cats on Wall Street, concerned about joblessness and underemployment, and worried about the countless trillions of dollars being amassed in our collective debt, as being a sure sign of their persistent, vile racism, as expressed, for example, in Virginia's Republican Gov. Robert McDonnell's issuing a state proclamation celebrating April as Confederate History Month.

I was jumped last Friday night. Around 11 p.m., while reaching for my keys to enter my apartment building, I was grabbed from behind, hit in the face, thrown to the ground and punched repeatedly a few feet from my door. My teenage assailants surprisingly made no effort to take anything from me and ran off laughing as I gathered my bearings and staggered inside. Though I had a fat lip, a bruised cheek and a pounding headache, my encounter left me with no lasting scars. Instead, my experience put me in a reflective mood.

Editor: In your editorial "Let Them Eat Cake", you, Mr. Kennedy, display for the public at large your curmudgeonly nature, your abject ignorance and your vitriolic bitterness. To compare teachers who have not receive their negotiated salaries for three years to Marie Antoinette is patently offensive and repugnant. You should be ashamed of yourself. Your proclivity to use your position as editor of the only local paper in Harford County to lambast the county workers and teachers is shameful.  Have you no ethics?

The Sun editorial recommending the "stages of grief" from Elizabeth Kubler-Ross to deal with the Raven's recent playoff loss is one way of looking at the situation ("Stages of grief," Jan. 24). One can dwell on the stages of denial, anger, bargaining, etc. to get some form of relief, but there is a better way to deal with the game. Look at it this way: The Ravens did not lose in our minds. They won. They beat the Patriots in their home field. The Lee Evans catch was a catch, and we had a touchdown.

When middle linebacker Gary Brackett was lost for the season in September after requiring surgery on his left rotator cuff, many expected the Indianapolis Colts defense to suffer. True to form, the unit has under-performed this season, but Brackett's replacement has been stellar. Pat Angerer, a second-round pick in 2010, has made 111 tackles, which ranks second this season only to the Washington Redskins' London Fletcher. The 6-foot, 235-pound Angerer is averaging 9.3 tackles and is on pace to finish with 148. Angerer may have stunned many within the NFL, but his production hasn't had the same effect on Marshal Yanda, the Ravens' starting right guard who spent one season with Angerer at the University of Iowa.

Legislation drafted by Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin to update the 1917 Espionage Act has angered public disclosure advocates who say the proposal would make it harder for federal employees to expose government fraud and abuse. The bill would clarify a murky area of law to ensure that anyone who publicly leaks classified material could be prosecuted criminally, which is not necessarily the case today. The proposal also would make it illegal for government employees to violate nondisclosure agreements.

The "Occupy" movement is too important to disband, though you're absolutely correct in urging them to focus their efforts on practical goals ("Time to grow up," Nov. 17). I've spent time at McKeldin Square, and I spoke briefly at the Save the Post Office rally on Sunday. But my overall impression of the encampment remains the same: It's retro Woodstock. There are many valid issues, yet with few exceptions most "occupiers" cannot explain why they're angry. It's becoming little more than a nostalgic hippie adventure.

Like many of his former Penn State football teammates, Rich Rosa remained close with his coach, Joe Paterno, as well as with defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, long after he graduated. Rosa spent a season on Paterno's staff as a graduate assistant and several more years helping Sandusky with his Second Mile program that worked with underprivileged and at-risk children. With last week's arrest of Sandusky on 40 charges of sexual abuse of minors, and revelations that Paterno was made aware at least one incident but never called police, the emotions Rosa feels range from sadness for the victims to anger for the men - Paterno in particular - that he held in such high regard.

A Morgan State University senior who was one of two college students killed in a car accident Thursday night in Fells Point most likely went through a red light while speeding, according to Baltimore police. The preliminary investigation, based on witness accounts, reveals that 23-year-old Julian Benson, who was driving Dodge Durango sport utility vehicle, was at fault in the crash, said Detective Jeremy Silbert, a city police spokesman. Also killed was Zoey Crumpton, 18, a passenger in a Mitsubishi Eclipse that was broadsided by the SUV. The Baltimore resident was a 2011 graduate of Bryn Mawr School and had just enrolled in the nursing program at Stevenson University.