I hate costumes. I hate dressing up in general. I feel woefully incompetent at anything where physical appearance plays a big role. It's not that I think I'm inherently bad to look at or anything like that. It's that I think there is a certain skill to presenting yourself well from a pure visual appearance standpoint that I don't think I ( Read more... )

There are two articles that, in my opinion, give an excellent analysis of the Virginia Tech shootings.

The first is a scholarly piece by a professor of sociology that carefully dissects the situation and the blame spinning around it to raise some serious questions about exactly why the shootings happened:

MOBBING AND THE VIRGINIA TECH MASSACRE

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