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Reflections on a Mass Homicide (Commentary)
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Commentary
Reflections on a Mass Homicide
Jimmy Lee,1 MBBS, MMed (Psych), Tih-Shih Lee,1,2 MD, PhD, FRCP (C), Beng-Yeong Ng,1 MBBS, MMed (Psych), FAMS
1 Department of Psychiatry, Singapore General Hospital,…
Commentary
Reflections on a Mass Homicide
Jimmy Lee,1 MBBS, MMed (Psych), Tih-Shih Lee,1,2 MD, PhD, FRCP (C), Beng-Yeong Ng,1 MBBS, MMed (Psych), FAMS
1 Department of Psychiatry, Singapore General Hospital,…
The news gets worse and worse
By KEVIN FRISCH
Messenger Post Columnist
Posted: Apr 23, 01:00 PM EDT
What a difference a weekend makes.
Last Friday, the big story was brand new man of leisure Don Imus, who was ousted from his nationally syndicated radio program after…
Messenger Post Columnist
Posted: Apr 23, 01:00 PM EDT
What a difference a weekend makes.
Last Friday, the big story was brand new man of leisure Don Imus, who was ousted from his nationally syndicated radio program after…
Tags: column, commentary, reaction
Finger-pointing won’t answer problem of evil
GateHouse Media
Tue Apr 24, 2007, 10:41 AM CDT
BLACKSBURG, Va. -
A tragedy the magnitude of last week's mass murder in Blacksburg, Va., prompt most of us to ask serious questions. What compelled a student to kill 32 people on the Virginia…
Tue Apr 24, 2007, 10:41 AM CDT
BLACKSBURG, Va. -
A tragedy the magnitude of last week's mass murder in Blacksburg, Va., prompt most of us to ask serious questions. What compelled a student to kill 32 people on the Virginia…
Tags: commentary, evil, loners
No Shortage of Manliness
April 23, 2007
Filed under: Feminism, Minnesota Monitor, Virginia Tech — Jeff Fecke @ 12:21 pm
It is human nature to try to figure out why bad things happen. Long ago, we blamed natural disasters on the capriciousness of the gods. The flood…
Filed under: Feminism, Minnesota Monitor, Virginia Tech — Jeff Fecke @ 12:21 pm
It is human nature to try to figure out why bad things happen. Long ago, we blamed natural disasters on the capriciousness of the gods. The flood…
Tags: blog, cho, commentary, feminism, manliness, masculinity
Desensitization, Detachment and Virginia Tech
Apr 23 2007
Written by Lynn Kindler
To all family, friends, and people affected by the horrific and sad shootings at Virginia Tech, please accept my heartfelt sympathy. I know that I am joined by many others who are keeping you in their…
Written by Lynn Kindler
To all family, friends, and people affected by the horrific and sad shootings at Virginia Tech, please accept my heartfelt sympathy. I know that I am joined by many others who are keeping you in their…
Tags: anger, blog, commentary, desensitization, detachment, emotion
Virginia Tech
Thursday, April 19, 2007
I first saw Blacksburg, and what was then V.P.I., almost fifty years ago, the summer of 1960. A member of my high school's chapter of the Future Farmers of America, I was attending the FFA's Virginia state…
I first saw Blacksburg, and what was then V.P.I., almost fifty years ago, the summer of 1960. A member of my high school's chapter of the Future Farmers of America, I was attending the FFA's Virginia state…
Tags: alumni, blacksburg, blog, commentary
Librescu Day
By Salah Obeid
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Jun 8, 2007, 00:27
There isn't room enough on the calendar to honor every American hero, but Aug. 16, the birthday of one such hero, is a day teachers and others who cherish education…
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Jun 8, 2007, 00:27
There isn't room enough on the calendar to honor every American hero, but Aug. 16, the birthday of one such hero, is a day teachers and others who cherish education…
Tags: censorship, commentary, education, freedom, history, librescu
Virginia Tech: Laying The Blame
Karen Harper
22 Apr 2007
There will be a lot of blame dished out in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech massacre. But one element will be missing and that is the system itself. Capitalism and the society it nurtures will remain unscathed in the…
22 Apr 2007
There will be a lot of blame dished out in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech massacre. But one element will be missing and that is the system itself. Capitalism and the society it nurtures will remain unscathed in the…
Tags: blame, blog, capitalism, commentary, society, values
Virginia Tech, Imus and Curve Balls
[Philosophical Musing on Media Culture]
By Carl Davidson
20 Apr 2007
The universe throws curve balls at us, now and then.
It seems to want to wake us up, and teach us lessons in impermanence and interconnectedness.
Take the killings at…
By Carl Davidson
20 Apr 2007
The universe throws curve balls at us, now and then.
It seems to want to wake us up, and teach us lessons in impermanence and interconnectedness.
Take the killings at…
Tags: blog, cho, commentary, imus, media
Bowing Down to Our Own Violence
Media Beat (4/19/07)
By Norman Solomon
Many days after the mass killings at Virginia Tech, grisly stories about the tragedy still dominated front pages and cable television. News of carnage on a vastly larger scale -- the war in Iraq -- ebbs…
By Norman Solomon
Many days after the mass killings at Virginia Tech, grisly stories about the tragedy still dominated front pages and cable television. News of carnage on a vastly larger scale -- the war in Iraq -- ebbs…
Tags: commentary, iraq, media, violence, war
