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[erudito]

Woman denied tenure in Biology Department at Alabama shoots and kills three professors and wounds three other faculty members. 24 years previously, she had shot and killed her brother, but had not been charged.

A school system in Virginia has withdrawn the full version of Ann Frank’s Diary because of one complaint about sexual content. A school

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Very interesting!

[adamj7]

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[findalexh]

That shooting is hilarious. I don't know where to start, with the accidental shooting? "I couldn't unload the shotgun" or the same woman who having lacked the mechanical ability to break the action and remove a shell, or pump the action to remove the shells somehow, after miraculously dressing herself in the morning, designs (anything?) a sealed self contained mobile incubator. Seriously, it would involve more mechanical aptitude to make breakfast than load and unload a shotgun. And if she did accidentally blow a hole in her wall why did she then take the weapon downstairs to her brother to unload it (into his chest) when she was clearly too incompetent to operate the door to her room let alone navigate the horrifying complexities of a staircase. Why didn't the brother/mother/father come bounding up the stairs to make sure their little darling hadn't accidentally unloaded it into her own head