The shooter was most likely a paranoid schizophrenic who did not get the proper mental health treatment, but did have excellent access to automatic weapons. It would seem the best response to this violence — so similar to many other episodes we have seen on high school, college and military campuses over the years — [...]

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Okay, I’m just testing the RSS feed again, but I thought I’d try to make it more interesting. Besides, check out the mirrors on that Tele! Syd Barrett had more mirrors than Jimmy Page here; maybe there was a mirror arms race among 60′s British musicians. The man with the most mirrors wins! Anyhoo, the [...]

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Atrios doesn’t get the controversy over the iPad — which one of the comments likens to the rivalry between aficionados of Gibson Les Paul guitars and those of Fender Stratocasters. Something about technology invites people (mostly men, it seems) to go deep tribal, grab their crotches and bellow insults at their rivals. “Some people might [...]

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Perhaps you caught Jon Stewart’s ridicule of Red State blogger Erick Erickson, CNN’s latest pundit hire. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c CNN Hires Erick Erickson www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Reform And perhaps you thought that was funny (I did), but otherwise irrelevant to [...]

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There are typos. And then there are intelligence failures in more ways that one. A Defense Intelligence Agency publication available as recently as yesterday on its Web site noted “an Israeli F-16 raid to destroy an Iranian nuclear reactor” in 1981. Just one problem: publicly-known history includes no Israeli raid on an Iranian nuclear reactor [...]

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