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Virginia Tech Massacre
Is there anything that can be done to stop this type of thing from happening?
It just seems so surrreal to think that someone like this Cho Seung-Hui can get away with murdering over 30 people.
It’s getting to the point where you can not feel safe anywhere. Where are my children supposed to feel safe if not at a school like Virginia Tech?
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Australia: Beyond Blue... Beyond Belief!
I've been corresponding with an Australian author of late [Rebekah Beddoe] and we started musing over the help needed when withdrawing from SSRi's. Rebekah wrote a heart wrenching account of her time on a whole host of anti psychotic and antidepressant drugs, her book aptly entitled 'Dying For A Cure', is a terrific read and highlights the dangers of these drugs but more importantly the lack of knowledge the medical profession have regarding the addictive qualities and consequent tapering progra
The Last Nail in the Coffin of "Let The Police Handle It"
The Last Nail in the Coffin of "Let The Police Handle It" From November 14, 2008 WCPO channel 9: The new tactics developed in response to Columbine involved creating an ad-hoc tactical team using the first four or five patrol officers on the scene. They would enter the shooting scene in a diamond formation with guns pointing in all directions. This technique was employed by police departments around the country. Then 32 people were killed by a lone gunman at Virginia Tech in April 2007. Seung
Crikey: The inflated cost of illegally copied DVDs
[This article was first published in Crikey on Monday. I've also added the comment and additional material which were published yesterday.] Hurrah! The War on Terror is over! Well, at least it seems we’re no longer afraid of terrorists, because when Home Affairs Minister Bob Debus warned that illegally copying DVDs costs the industry $1.7 billion, for a change terrorism didn’t get a mention. Major distributors have been trying to scare us off illegal copying for years. Australia’s laws were
Microblog 2008-11-08
Pics of 50 of the strangest buildings of the world, some look as if Hobbits must live there [Village of Joy h/t @CoolPics] # Research drugmaker held liable for misrepresenting drug even though plaintiff took generic [Beck & Herrmann h/t @billchilds] # Rep. Rangel can’t find 1 law firm to sift his tax mess that isn’t conflicted (like by being his donor). [NY Post h/t @jeffnolan] # Pot/kettle award? RIAA, of kid- and grandma-suing fame, calls adversary vexatious [Kravets, Wired "Threat Level" h/t
How I decide what and when to blog
That well-respected and mostly-respectable renaissance woman Kate Carruthers has asked me (and four others) this: “And how do YOU decide how/what/when to blog?” Good question, Kate. Actually, why do I blog at all? I have four answers, and they overlap. 1. Because I can. I enjoy writing. Sometimes other people seem to enjoy it too, even to the point of paying me money. I gives me pleasure, and I can do it while sipping wine at my local pub. Unlike masturbation. When I’m writing for pleasur
“Community service”? Yep, mandatory (Update: they’ve revised)
Well, that didn’t take long. Coyote spots language on the Obama transition site that seems to make explicit what was left studiously vague during the campaign: Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year. Update 12:15 a.m. Saturday: After my post was linked by Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit (thanks!) and began drawing thousands of
US-Cambodians Worry After Obama Threat
A number of Cambodian-American supporters of presidential hopeful Barack Obama voiced concern over his safety after they learned this week of an alleged plot to assassinate him. Authorities on Tuesday arrested two men in Tennessee, Paul Schelesselman, 18, and Daniel Cowart, 20, on suspicion they had planned to shoot Obama and several black students. The two men allegedly followed white supremacist beliefs. Obama is the first black man in US history to run for president under a major party,
Anonymous school-bullying snitchline
The innovation might itself prove to be quite an effective weapon for use in tormenting hapless victims (Feral Child, Oct. 14; Ki Mae Heussner, “Calling Out Bullies Incognito: New Site Lets Students Report Bullying, Harassment Anonymously”, ABC News, Oct. 16; more on snitchlines here, here, and here). Tags: bullying, schools Related posts Damned if you do, damned if you don’t files: “Cyber-bullying” (2) Zero Tolerance Blog (1) Yet more on privacy/disability laws and Seung Hui Cho (2) Workplac
Gaming: Addiction or Crisis du jour?
With the sad case of a Barrie youth in the news recently, many news organizations are taking the opportunity to ramp up fear and misunderstanding of gamers, games and gaming in general. The term addiction is being thrown around like the word maverick at a GOP rally. The truth of the role gaming plays in the average youths life is getting lost among the rhetoric. For adults with fond memories of tree climbing, tag, pick-up games of baseball, hours of bike riding the thought of staying in glued
Hello Salmon, It seems
Hello Salmon, It seems that it is not true that states that use the NCIS data also have access to all the local information that is used by some localities. Otherwise the researchers that did the study I mentions would have have had a comparison to make... Remember the study was published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine. This is not popular magazine. It is a top-notch juried research journal. I don't think the researchers could get away with faking the data they used fo
The Situation of Polarization
Posted by The Situationist Staff on October 15, 2008 Bill Bishop has a recent situationist piece in Slate, “Extremism at McCain Rallies Comes Naturally.” Here are a few excerpts. * * * College kids who join a conservative fraternity move to the right during their four years in college. Liberals from Boulder asked to discuss some issues of the day, such as global warming and gay marriage, are more liberal at the end of their discussion than before. Racists brought into a room to discuss race g
Nevada data encryption law
On October 1 a new law went into effect in Nevada requiring businesses to encrypt all “personal identifying information” (things like Social Security and drivers’ license numbers and credit card numbers) of customers in email and “electronic transmissions” more generally. The law has raised concern among, e.g., law offices and medical providers which often work with client documents containing such numbers; it will now be unlawful (say) to email such documents from a professional’s workplace to
A little more on Cho Joo-hee, including a hell of a KBS write-up.
I came across an undated KBS story on Cho Joo-hee, the woman who wrote that nasty, uninformed, sensationalist hit piece for ABC.com on foreign English teachers here titled "English Teachers Bring Drugs to South Korea." Here's a big excerpt under the subheading "Striving for balanced reporting," and brace yourself, this is really, really bad:Westerners have as strong a prejudice against Asia as their aspirations for the region. Worse yet, the provocative nature of foreign media tends to further
Success Story with a Sordid Ending
Fear drives people to do strange things—even macabre things. Like when Karthik Rajaram, a US based Indian businessman shot dead five of his family members before committing suicide at his posh residence in suburban Los Angeles, according to media reports. What could possibly have prompted the man to choose such an ignominious exit? Could the fear of losing face in public trigger such an extreme action in a one-time successful financial wizard and a highly educated one at that (IIT Madras and UC
“Being male” as potential disability?
Sounds like the stuff of parody, but at least one lawyer at a highly regarded firm (Louis Solomon, co-head of the global litigation department at Proskauer Rose) seems to be taking the idea seriously as one possible application of Congress’s recent expansion of the ADA. (Tresa Baldas, “A New Potential Disability: Being Male?”, National Law Journal, Oct. 7). Tags: disabled rights Related posts Yet more on privacy/disability laws and Seung Hui Cho (2) Yet more from the publicity file (0) Welcom
Trench Reynolds: DBKP This Week in Crime, Sept 21-27 2008
September 21-27, 2008 Volume 30 22-year-old gunman Matti Saari stormed the Kauhajoki School of Hospitality in Finland I’m Trench Reynolds. I blog about crime. This is DBKP’s This Week in Crime for September 21-September 27th, 2008. Yes, I took the week off last week. That’s a good thing. When I take the week off that means there wasn’t anything earth-shattering to report in my world of crime. This week, unfortunately, is not the case. As I’m sure most of you know there was a
“Munchausens’ by Attorney”
Throckmorton is taken aback by the impressive list of symptoms and preconditions brought in by a patient who, it seems, is being prepped for a disability filing or some other sort of legal claim. The result: one of my favorite blog post titles ever. (Sept. 21) Tags: disabled rights, medical Related posts Yet more on privacy/disability laws and Seung Hui Cho (2) Yet more from the publicity file (0) Wrongful birth reaches Germany (11) Wrongful birth (cont’d) (4) Wildly off-topic: Michael Moore’
And the excuse is…
Finnish gunman ‘admired other killers’: It was only a matter of time. I’m actually surprised it took this long. Some of his hometown friends said he was bullied as a child and described him as an outsider. Of course they’re talking about Kauhajoki School gunman Matti Saari. Saari was 22 at the time he killed 10 people at the school before taking the coward’s way out and turning the gun on himself. As I previously stated Sarri has been planning some type of massacre since he was 16. If you
Finland shooting prompts web monitoring rethink
Finland shooting prompts web monitoring rethink Posted by Reuters on 24 Sep 2008 | Tagged as: News, Europe, New Media OSLO (Reuters) - A deadly shooting at a Finnish school on Tuesday raises questions over tougher policing of the Internet after news the gunman posted menacing videos of himself on the Web before killing 10 people. Student Matti Juhani Saari, 22, also killed himself in the incident closely resembling a 2007 massacre at another Finnish school, where that gunman also published m
Twitter for 2008-09-19
Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator; mine is Pie Gallon Palin. # McCain assails SEC’s Cox, but Bainbridge is going with Cox; # Yes, racial profiling figures into use of peremptory challenges [Sommers, Psychology Today via Deliberations] # SEC’s net capital rule waivers to blame for credit blowup? [NYSun] # NY Observer’s Doonan cool to Palin eyeglass craze; # Business lobbies went along with expansion of ADA litigant categories [Point of Law] # @teafortillerman I think “trough gutted palin” is the b
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