It’s not us

In one page, Time magazine columnist David von Drehle takes a swing at the troubling “why” of the Virginia Tech mass murder last week, and hits the sweet spot.
Von Drehle points out that it’s all about him – the shooter. He acted out of extreme narcissism, which is the hallmark of killers far [...]

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So, when is 33 dead worth a whole section of the Denver Post?

When they are killed on an American university campus. The Denver Post devoted almost its entire first section today to yesterday’s shooting at Virginia Tech. Thirty-three dead is a horrible thing, as is what happened there yesterday.
But I could only think, as I turned page after page of the Post today, that when [...]

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Newest JibJab video: what we call the news

Too true and too funny. Check it out: http://www.jibjab.com/what_we_call_the_news

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Chairs

There are 168 chairs. The transparent base of each chair is lighted at night. I was there yesterday midday and noticed before I read it, that some are a smaller size because 19 of those killed were children.
There were a few ducks floating around on the moving sheet of water.
The twin portals at [...]

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