Oy! What a week! I want to blog but I can't get my thoughts together sufficiently to make something coherent (so what's new?). I want to write about the shootings on the Virginia Tech campus and about how the lessons that we need to learn and the memories of the victims will soon be lost as we play the favorite American pastimes of second guessing, finger pointing, and endless litigation. I want to write about Liviu Librescu, a professor at VT and a holocaust survivor, who, having already experienced the worst mankind has to offer, died while barricading his classroom door to buy time for his students to escape out the windows. Hero seems too inadequate a term to use here. VT really needs to name a building after this gentleman.
I want to write about what a douchebag Dr. Phil is for immediately blaming video games for this tragedy. Once upon a time when someone did something awful it was said that person was possessed by a demon or devil. Now we blame video games. I guess it never occurred to Dr. Phil that there are simply bad people in the world. I don't think Saddam Hussein or Adolf Hitler ever played Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
That's what I want to write, but I just can't get my thoughts together.
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