Yea, I don't own a TeeVee so my mom informed me about the shootings the morning it happened. I live in Richmond so many of the people I come into contact with are much closer to the tragedy that I or most other people are (most of the kids I work with know people at VATech). I can't really say that I a more sad today, yesterday, or whatever, on account of this tragedy; the world we live in is so fucked that this sort of violence shouldn't surprise us, and it doesn't me so much.

The gun control thing sort of tickled me when I saw some of it circling out from various centers in the blogosphere: it's one of those boxes people think in when they are confronted with a systemic ill.

I haven't commented on the shootings that much except to say that this tragedy is allowed to become a media-spectacle, while others on scales of magnitude far greater are not. Ah well: The world sings a song as it moves along, and it ain't in a major key.