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Archive for April, 2007

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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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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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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