Comments on: Baby, Don’t You Ever Wonder?

By: merlallen

merlallen — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:14:45 +0000

me too, aka dad. when she thought he was an islamofascist, she was all over it. turns out he was a good christian, she shuts the fuck up about religion. i wish the guy had also been a philipino anchor baby. that would make her head explode.

By: Col Bat Guano

Col Bat Guano — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:01:48 +0000

Anyone else sense the palable disappointment in Malkin and others when they found out Cho wasn’t a Muslim? They so wanted it to be someone from Pakistan they were nearly creaming their jeans when that early report said “Asian”.

By: Herr Doktor Bimler

Herr Doktor Bimler — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:11:56 +0000

Well, how about if I say that some folks are so obviously as nutty as a Snickers bar that all the training in the world couldnâ€™t hinder someone from noticing? Stimmtâ€™s? ;-)
I can’t argue with that…
Sometimes I want to launch into long Szasz-style rants about the undue respect given to trained psychologists and to their over-blown claims to be better than lay-people at predicting or modifying human behaviour. Then I look at Krauthammer and Dr Mrs Instapundit and of course the thought comes to mind… what could I possibly say that would discredit the profession better than them?

By: g

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:15:42 +0000

I am waiting for Michelle and friends to note that among the victims were an Egyptian man, a Lebanese-American woman, 3 Indian legal immigrants, and a Vietnamese-Chinese legal immigrant. And a kid from Boston whose name sounds like 3rd or 4th generation Lebanese-American.

Crickets.

By: tigrismus

tigrismus — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:33:07 +0000

Well, how about if I say that some folks are so obviously as nutty as a Snickers bar that all the training in the world couldn’t hinder someone from noticing? Stimmt’s? ;-)

By: Herr Doktor Bimler

Herr Doktor Bimler — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:03:35 +0000

Even trained professionals canâ€™t always tell if and how badly someone will snap.
Come on, Tigrismus, you’re creating the impression that trained professionals do have some ability to make accurate predictions. You give the psychological profession too much credit.

By: SamFromUtah

SamFromUtah — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:45:12 +0000

RubDMC: Maybe we lock up every adolescent, just to be safe, and let â€˜em out when adolescence is over.

That was the idea behind establishing junior high schools, but it doesn’t seem to have worked.

By: sonic

sonic — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:42:23 +0000

Why oh why do you keep concentrating on the bad news from Virgina Tech, no mention here of the thousands of students who were not shot in the head this week, try and get some perspective here.

After all the violence there is limited to a few isolated locations, most of the campus is as safe as New York!

By: Whammer

Whammer — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:37:40 +0000

What reminded me of the wingnut mindset on this was the State Dept. spokesman saying something like “she is not a direct employee of the State Department” — as though it would be a problem if she was. Um, no.

Again, if she worked for Hillary it would be evidence of some kind of librul conspiracy……….

By: a different brad

a different brad — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:16:13 +0000

So the AP posted Cho’s sister’s personal contact info on their blog and told their readers to harass her?
Hey, it was publicly available, it’s her fault.

By: El Cid

El Cid — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:40:31 +0000

If only someone had handed Bush Jr. a memo to the effect of “Cho Seung-Hui Determined To Strike In United States.”

By: Lawnguylander

Lawnguylander — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:40:30 +0000

Wow, I just canâ€™t wait til it comes down to right wing bloggers & pundits to decide which kids are â€œweirdâ€? and which ones arenâ€™t!!! They'll probably advocate using voter registration databases to make the determination. As long as you register republican you'll be considered normal. Any other choice is clear evidence of BDS. And I'm surprised the reference to Bush in Cho's rantings hasn't caused a frenzy in the blogosphere around the BDS theme yet. I guess they're still picking at the meager carcass of the jihadi angle. Sorry to go OT but speaking of mangy carcasses which one is Schlussel and which one is Coulter?

By: Disabusive Sophist

Disabusive Sophist — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:36:50 +0000

Gavin,

I suspect the term ‘hound’ was in reference to this passage in the article:

“Messages left on her office voicemail, in which she identifies herself as “Sun Cho,” were not immediately returned on Wednesday.”

Not sure i would say thats hounding but the reporter did call repeatedly to speak with her.

By: Moominpapa

Moominpapa — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:19:02 +0000

â€œwith what we knew, this could have been prevented!!â€?.

Seems to me this would be better said about Dubya getting into the White House: not once, but twice!

By: His Grace

His Grace — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:16:08 +0000

Again, a big thumbs up for Mikey.

Just to clarify though, there are plenty of people who are mentally ill who AREN’T in danger of snapping suddenly and carrying out tremendous crimes.

But, if someone does “snap” if you will (I don’t know what exactly to call it) and they don’t care whether they live or die, there’s not much you can do to defend against that threat. If you wish to live (which I would hope is all of us) and there’s a guy who doesn’t care if he dies and he also wants to take as many people out with him as possible, he’s got a hell of an edge on you. Which is why the Mark Steyns and John Derbyshires are wrong about the whole spirit of flight 93 chickenhawkery they’ve been squawking.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:15:04 +0000

the mosque was only partially hounded.

By: El Cid

El Cid — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:07:39 +0000

Wow, I just can’t wait til it comes down to right wing bloggers & pundits to decide which kids are “weird” and which ones aren’t!!!

By: RubDMC

RubDMC — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:53:58 +0000

â€œwith what we knew, this could have been prevented!!â€?.

So, lock up every college student who, at some time or another, acts disturbed/sad/angry/says something stupid?

That’s a lot of empty classrooms.

Maybe we lock up every adolescent, just to be safe, and let ‘em out when adolescence is over.

Or not.

By: atheist

atheist — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:16:39 +0000

Oh. Stupid. I get it.

By: atheist

atheist — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:15:24 +0000

targeting Sun-Kyung Cho.

I don’t know if that constitutes targeting, but they really should let his family alone.