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A firearm was used by the murderer in the murder-suicide, sources say.

I suppose one could analyze the shootin' rate in states with various degrees of handgun control and see what's what.

You kinda answered your own question. I think there is a revulsion felt by decent, working people on constantly seeing young, drunk girls and their nipple slips, vaginae and mental problems being presented as actually being important. The problem is that other teenagers, people with weak minds and people who like being outraged (think Nancy Grace) think this is important too.

I realize this is a widely held belief, but I think it's bullshit, and patronizing to boot. All the observation that most of us do of third world countries is via the television, which gives a rather limited perspective. I don't wanna sound like Lou Dobbs, but if America sucks so hard, why do we have an illegal immigration problem?

BREAKING NEWS: Police probe two deaths in West Hurley home Freeman staff WEST HURLEY - Police this afternoon are at a home on Morgan Hill Road in West Hurley where two people were found dead. Scant details of the case have been released, but the home, at 213 Morgan Hill Road, is that of James Leshkevich, a self-proclaimed "white separatist" who participated in a white power rally outside Kingston High School in November 2005 and who has written numerous letters to the Freeman and posted comments on the newspaper's online stories and blogs. On Monday, Leshkevich posted a rambling messag

An Italian, I think. (The Nazi posted the name on the blog.) Not really a minority in these parts.

We are actually dealing with a murder-suicide today. A local Nazi, "Yankee" Jim Leshkevich, killed his wife after discovering (and blogging about it on his Nazi blog) his wife having an affair. He then killed himself.

She wishes. Hopefully, she will not end up like Norma Jean.

Maybe we should just close down schools.

In my county in New York, the old retired sheriff used to issue pistol permits to pretty much anybody who could complete the paperwork, because he believed people should be allowed to have guns, in general. Now we have a new person issuing them, and he is apparently not so inclined. And since jail time is mandatory in N.Y. if they catch you with an unlicensed handgun, carrying one anyway ("better to be judged by 12 than carried by six") is not something to be done casually. What darkstar wrote above is the second half of my "genie out of the bottle" point. With guns pretty much ubiquitous in t

That's like some sort of alien spacecraft they're going to retrofit as a ballpark? Far. Out. It is also laudatory that they are changing their name to the much more alliterative Miami Marlins.

True. I don't think Andy lied or evaded any more than I would have done if I was in that situation. Also, it is pretty tough to look like more of a dick than Clemens.

I have never been much of an Andy Pettitte fan, but he went up a notch or two with me today.

God, this band rules.

I thought those were D. Boon lyrics or something.

In toney Hyde Park, we had a tennis court. It was one that had "777 Our Omnipotent Saviour Black Sabbath" painted on it by an unknown bjorn and his unknown friend.

You bet, man. A shame we didn't go to high school together - no tennis court or bus shelter would have been safe.

You're right - it was not an ethical thing to run that video. I wouldn't have done it, but I don't run a major television news operation. In journalism, once the competition runs something or takes a story someplace questionable, there is tremendous pressure to follow. (It can work the other way, too - the media in this country was almost uniformly paralyzed into not challenging the looming Iraq war in 2001-02, for instance.)

Polk, because his last name is one letter away from "pork."

I did forget our missing Laminated Kat, with whom I hung out in Albuquerque.

How does one exactly soft-pedal mass murder?

Headlines and nuance do not often mix.

Bully!

It's OK. We in the media are every bit as rotten as you imagine, and a bit more on top.