Go Home Already: Senselessness
- The Associated Press has the best information we've seen coming out of Fort Hood. An officer who's been identified as Army Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan allegedly opened fire at this military base, leaving 12 people dead and 31 wounded. Authorities killed the gunman and apprehended two other soldiers in what appears to be the worst mass shooting ever to occur at a U.S. military base.
- The biological father of one of the adopted daughters of Renee Bowman, the woman accused of murdering the girls and placing them in a freezer, has filed a $75 million wrongful death lawsuit against the District of Columbia.
- Frozen Tropics updates on the Martini Lounge stabbing and subsequent temporary license suspension.
- Bread for the City shares the strange story of how they ended up with 1,000 donated coconuts thanks to some disgruntled Florida residents who wanted to send the U.S. Postal Service a message.
- Greater Greater Washington keeps on the SmartBenefits changes confusion, and finds a basic failure to communicate.
- TPMDC has all the coverage you could possibly want (and then some) on today's tea party protests at the Capitol.
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Since the best defense is a strong offense, DC should file a preemptive negligence suit against the Bowman girl's biological father in abandoning his daughter to a mentally ill mother.
Meh. He was simply a sperm donor.
My heart goes out to all those affected at Ft. Hood including MAJ Hasan. In days to come I will find ways to continue to blame George Bush for his misuse of the Armed Services, and the stress inherent in meaningless combat. But for now I feel so bad for these service members and their families, and how this affects them and the rest of us.
13 soldiers dead in Texas is a "horrific outburst of violence" that sends the nation into mourning.
Dozens of soldiers killed in Afghanistan last month? Not so much.
And 100 Afghan civilians dead in an airstrike is ... nothing.
We have allowed the ratings-driven news media to decide what is a 'tragedy', and what is worthy of our attention, concern, and outrage. The results are a country blissfully unaware of its own immorality.
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