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Gun-Crazy Right Wing Howls for Bob Costas to Be Fired

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Viscous Obama12/03/2012 7:44:24 pm PST

I saw this too:

Finnish literature is full of examples of violent loners. The national epic, “Kalevala,” a major source of inspiration for generations of artists and musicians including composer Jean Sibelius, has knife and ax-wielding men bent on revenge and murder as some of its central heroes.

“Finland has been a top violent country for hundreds of years,” said Matti Laine at the Prison Personnel Planning Center. “Overall crime figures are falling slightly, but violent crime is on the increase.”

About 2,600 inmates are in Finnish prisons at any one time, and 600 of them are incarcerated for murder or manslaughter. In all, about 920 have been convicted of violent crimes, which is a high percentage by international standards, Laine said.

Yeah, we might laugh at the idea of literate axe-wielding Finns, but there’s probably something to all those “knife” murders, as silly as it sounds.