Of course, now it turns out the killer was an English Major.

D. Aristophanes: that’s because they want to re-experience that circa 9/11 feeling of kill-em-all abandon so badly, they can taste it.

I agree, D.A., but this kind of crap has been happening since forever. Remember when gangs were the big boogeyman in the early 1990s? Around then, there was a murder here in Salt Lake City – one man killed another man; lots of witnesses, well-known motive, and so on – a very cut-and-dried case. The only thing that wasn’t known for sure was whether either of the men had anything to do with any gangs. But the news reporter had something like this to say:

“We do not know at this time whether either man belonged to a GANG or whether this incident was GANG-related; we’ve contacted Lt. Whitebread of the GANG-violence task force of the SLCPD. He says that at this time there is no evidence that GANGs were involved but GANG violence experts are searching for clues that GANG rivalry caused this…”

The terrorism fad might be wearing thin now, but the relentless screaming heads of television (RIP, Media Horse) will always be looking for that new button to push to get us to shut our brains off and quiver in fear. Preferably, from their POV, racist – helps that kill-’em-all fever you mention.

I’m now trying to guess what possible spin the right wingnut sphere will put to these facts…

My money is on a Manchurian candidate type of thing.

What strikes me the most absurd development this morning is that Our Prznit is going to hie himself to Blacksburg to help The Nation with the Healing Process.

The LAST fucking thing law enforcement officials in this poor, stricken town needs is to take on the horrendous, expensive, stressful and overt-time heavy burden of a Preznitial visit by the Hugger-in–Chief.

It’s fucking obscene. This motherfucker is coming down and all manpower is going to be diverted away from the crime scene to directing traffic on the state roads.

Ever see Rambo III – our hero fighting along with the heroic taliban against the Godless Soviet Russkies? As soon as the Commies vanished we found a new ‘mother of all enemies’ that we might fight against for all eternity. The second the dollar deflates and we pay Luxembourg style prices for knock-off Chinese goods at Walmart the wingnuts will be ready. They need an enemy. Their lives are completely empty without one.

Not ubekistan and kasikstan!!! I wasn’t aware there WAS a nation that bordered all of these countries.

Can any of them really address killing at eyeball range?

Does the fact that all of them are Yellow Elephants tell ya about their qualifications and mentality on dealing with potential deadly threats?

Never mind that the Freepers are too ignorant to know that the Chinese suppression of the Muslim Uyghur minority is being done under the bullshit guise of their being linked to Al Qaeda. Never mind that five of the Uyghurs shipped to Guantanamo had to be found political asylum in Albania when released without charge. Oh, and that they don’t actually look like the majority of Chinese, because they’re Turkic.