Hilzoy at Obsidian Wings reports that some wingnuts have latched onto
blaming the VT English program for Cho. She quotes James Lewis, who goes on for a bit about all the horrible Marxism and nihilism he seems to think is going on there. And then he says:
The question I have is: Are university faculty doing [...] Read more »

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Here’s the freekyest phishing/spam attack I think I’ve ever seen. Sadly, it would be far too difficult for me to preserve the original hilarious coloring, spacing and formatting, but everything else is intact:

Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania and America. (Five Continents)
FOREIGN FUNDS REMETTANCE OFFICE (FURO)
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I can’t believe how difficult it is to get Internet access in Blacksburg of all places. I have two options, neither of which I particularly like. I can go with Comcast and all the attendant problems there or I can go with Verizon, which I’d really rather not do because we don’t want land-line phone [...] Read more »

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At Matching Tracksuits, GLS asks whether or not we really want more intrusive background checks when purchasing firearms. The short answer is “yes.” It took several days for my application to rent an apartment to be approved — credit checks, criminal background checks, etc. The background check to purchase a handgun in Virginia is supposed [...] Read more »

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The problem with hindsight is separating what you know now from what you knew then. The Virginia Tech police were responding to a fatal domestic violence event.
Most murders, thank God, do not devolve into random killing sprees. Perhaps they do in the movies. But rarely in real life.
Some folks think the VT police should [...] Read more »

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