I'm NOT a Hokie..
and I'm not Columbine either. With all due respect to recent Diary authors..I'm not going to pass off this recent incident by saying "I'm one of you..I feel". Give me a break. Like I would know what it...
View ArticleA Jigsaw of School Shootings - part 2
This is a project that was completed and submitted for review the day before the events at Virginia Tech. It is focused on theory and situational forces on middle and high school adolescents since that...
View ArticleA Jigsaw of School Shootings - part 3
This is a project that was completed and submitted for review the day before the events at Virginia Tech. It is focused on theory and situational forces on middle and high school adolescents since that...
View ArticleTeachers impose Columbine scenario on 6th graders
You who prize your feelings and self-righteous outrage above all: Please refrain from judging these teachers until you have read both sides of the story. (Continued.)
View ArticleTeacher arrested over blog comment
First time I've ever randomly decided to poke cnn.com, and I find this gem: *Teacher James Buss wrote anonymous post praising Columbine H.S. shooters *His supporters say post was ironic response to...
View ArticleThe Killings Continue
As a reprieve from further law final studying (I'll be thankful when it is Christmas), I've notice that there is a definite lack of postings considering the problem with continued mass killings (mass =...
View ArticlePosthumous Publicity for Psychopaths: Why I Really REALLY Hate the Media Now.
Well, it's been two days since the Arvada Colorado shooting, and the media trucks have left my neighborhood. The only sign that they were here are the deep ruts they left by hurridly parking in wet,...
View ArticleI refuse to live in fear
I live in Illinois, and have many friends at Northern Illinois University. Thankfully, no one I know was hurt. Unfortunately, everyone I know is afraid.
View ArticleGuns and Pills
Whenever young people, either alone or in pairs, shoot up their place of study, their rampage is followed by tiresome, unimaginative debate. One side, the Joe Liebermans of the world, decry the...
View ArticleKos is way off the mark about Ames
I like Ames's work. It's funny and often very insightful. He gets attacked a lot because he lives and thinks outside middle-class morality. More power to him. Judging by the student descriptions of...
View ArticlePredicting history? Not so fast....
The press have been all a'twitter over what ought to be capitalized as the Bush Legacy Project. We Kossacks of course already know - or think we know - that Bush will go down as the worst president...
View ArticleCoward be Thy name (or Chickensh**, really)
Why publicize the name of the coward who just shot the 4 policemen in Pittsburgh? Seriously, as a small act of deterrence, I would like everyone at every media outlet and opportunity to call these...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Parenting Diary
Cross-posted at MotherTalkers. Good morning fellow moms, dads and caregivers! I am back with your weekly parenting news update. Here are some topics we recently discussed at MotherTalkers:
View ArticleColumbine Questions We Still Don't Ponder
We're coming up on the 10-year anniversary of the Columbine massacre, and once again, we've seen a spate of awful, inexplicably random shootings. Every time these Columbine-like massacres happen, we...
View ArticleEpistle To The Kosians From A Traveler
cross-posted from The Dream Antilles Dearest Kosian Friends in the Blogosfera, In 1999 I was traveling in India when Columbine happened. Everywhere I went, and I went to some pretty remote places,...
View ArticleColumbine after 10 years - a teacher reflects
April 20, 1999. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. 12 students and teacher David Sanders, who bled to death while the police secured the perimeter. A nation shocked at another mass shooting at a school....
View ArticleRest in Peace...
John Bartolotti, 45; Charlie Costa, 31; Fedelina Costa, 27; Lucy Costa, 4; Onofrio Costa, 6; James Fyler, 43; Cloriva Pedregon, 4; Rodgerlo Pedregon, 6; Frank Petrucci, 4 months; Joe Petrucci, 4; Lucy...
View ArticleA Young Man's Happy Memory of 4/20/99 (w/ MUSIC)
The following is a light-hearted story of young love, young love lost, and growing up ten years ago to the day, on the day we commemorate the victims of the horrific tragedy at Columbine. And enjoy a...
View Article9th Circuit Holds 2nd Amendment Applies To States
The 9th Circuit (Pacific states plus) held today that the right to bear arms for self-defense applies to the states. The 2nd Circuit (New York State plus) has held that states are not bound by the...
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