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By: Continuing the rant... « The Patch

Continuing the rant... « The Patch — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:34:30 +0000

[...] Continuing the rant… Filed under: Politics — freshlysqueezedcynic @ 10:34 am Okay, that was just something I had to get off my chest (and my drafts). Anger fuels the writing process no end, especially when you’ve got a target to hit, and in this case it’s the Virginia Tech shootings, which have, in the immortal words of BradÂ R. atÂ Sadly, No!, brought people of every race, creed and religion along toÂ join togetherÂ to say:Â ”The senseless massacre at Virginia Tech basically confirms everything Iâ€™ve been saying all along.” [...]

By: It's the hippies fault « Writhe Safely

It's the hippies fault « Writhe Safely — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:49:03 +0000

[...] THUNDERSTRUCK! [...]

By: Achilles

Achilles — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:01:00 +0000

Motion is Impossible and I Proved it.

Sorry, you’re only halfway there.

By: Zeno

Zeno — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:31:37 +0000

Motion is Impossible and I Proved it.

So fuck you.

By: sadly « ex-lion tamer

sadly « ex-lion tamer — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:00:45 +0000

[...] sadly it is turning out just as i feared. [...]

By: robert green

robert green — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:16:33 +0000

http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/5644.html#comments this comment confirms exactly what i believe this comment confirms, which in turn is what i believe this:
http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/5644.html#comments said so succinctly.

shorter this: this.

By: grampaw

grampaw — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:46:07 +0000

Drats, poster “ahem” beat me to it.

And I thought the d2/streetlawyer connection wasn’t widely known, but I guess it’s a small internet.

By: iPundit

iPundit — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:24:54 +0000

I am iPundit. I am an annotated bibliography unto myself.

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:17:59 +0000

Did anyone catch Tim Kane’s speech to assembled VTers on NPR? It sounded like a campaign speech to me. Maybe I’m missing something in VIrginian culture that says it’s appropriate, but he made the president seem socially gifted.

By: Col. Klink

Col. Klink — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:49:46 +0000

I think Mikey gets some mojo for his comments.

By: Lunatic Left » Blog Archive » Ha! - A Liberal Blog with Interesting Content Therein

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:49:25 +0000

[...] Hilarious. [...]

By: ahem

ahem — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:34:44 +0000

A direct descendent of Why the Bombings Mean That We Must Support My Politics, whose authorship is related to the 'Shorter' concept.

By: commander other

commander other — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:20:30 +0000

i’m all for gun control. i tend to keep mine in my pants, occasionally it’s even loaded. after fifteen years of marriage, no less!

btw, please email me immediately if someone’s about to shoot me. it’ll undoubtedly help me to determine which way to fall.

By: Jâ€”

Jâ€” — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:06:13 +0000

And one more thing, self-proclaimed expert cultural critics of the internet: Remember to cite yourselves!

By: AkaDad

AkaDad — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:56:46 +0000

I think this pretty much confirms all my prior confirmations…

By: Leonard Pierce

Leonard Pierce — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:40:37 +0000

The senseless massacre at Virginia Tech basically confirms everything Iâ€™ve been saying all along.

That’s exactly what I’VE been saying all along!

By: john doe

john doe — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:36:10 +0000

I am John Doe. If I see a person of Asian descent raving and acting unhinged, I will report them. Hi, Michelle.

By: Xanthippas

Xanthippas — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:23:25 +0000

Well said. And mostly true.

By: pch1013

pch1013 — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:05:20 +0000

Shorter Shorter Everybody on the Internet:

Muslims exist; therefore, everything bad is their fault.

By: mikey

mikey — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:03:37 +0000

It’s just a crazy fucker with weapons. It’s hard to get your mind around precisely because it HAS no meaning. It’s an aberation. I’ll make 2 quick points.

First, there is a major loophole in the societal deterrent to mass murder. After you kill your first victim, there is no additional sanction, no greater punishment that can serve as a check on your further actions. After this guy killed the people in the dorm, he knew he was all done. He knew he would most likely take his own life rather than accept the consequences for the killing. But either way, there was nothing left with which society could up the ante and cause the killer to think “well, it’s going to be better for me if I just stop now”.

Now, that said, most mass killers or spree killers like this stop before they are stopped. Killing is emotionally very draining, and even in cases like Columbine the killers just burn out their rage and have nothing behind it to sustain their lethality. So in most cases, the number of victims is constrained by the sudden leaden sense of numbness, the emptiness in your soul, the feeling, despite how you started, that you just don’t want to kill any more.

Whitman, Huberty and this guy are the three I can think of that didn’t stop, that somehow managed to continue to kill right up until the end. What does that mean? Three guys, about twenty years apart? If anything, it means that these badly defective individuals are very rare, and for the rest of us, I guess, that can be a comfort…

mikey