On Virginia Tech

It's easy to pretend that being so far away is an isolating experience, that distance still matters and that one can hide from the world. That's still true in a few places, but Dalian isn't one of them.

I just got word of the Virginia Tech shooting; 33 are dead at last count, including the still-unidentified shooter.

I was a junior in high school when the Columbine shooting happened, almost exactly eight years ago. Some events, though far away, inevitably make people look around nervously and ponder the horrific possibilities of something closer. I spent this morning wondering if my brothers, both at big universities far from home, were really safe. It's hard to push away those questions.

There's a lot on this around the web. Rick has a good list, from which I gleaned this:

In memoriam.

Before: Hollywood and the "Genocide Olympics" | After: Rite of Passage, my ass