with a gun, yes. at the doctor, nsm.

Whoa, the Cho did have a history of mental illness -- I didn't know that.

(Assuming that we can trust Fox news?)

And Nikki Giovanni was one of his teachers?

"It was not bad poetry. It was intimidating," poet Nikki Giovanni, one of his professors, told CNN.

"I know we're talking about a youngster, but troubled youngsters get drunk and jump off buildings," she said. "There was something mean about this boy. It was the meanness — I've taught troubled youngsters and crazy people — it was the meanness that bothered me. It was a really mean streak."

Giovanni said her students were so unnerved by Cho's behavior, including taking pictures of them with his cell phone, that some stopped coming to class and she had security check on her room. She eventually had him taken out of her class, after threatening to quit if he wasn't removed.

Lucinda Roy, a co-director of creative writing at Virginia Tech, said she tutored Cho after that. She said she tried to get him into counseling in late 2005 but he always refused.

"He was so distant and so lonely," she told ABC's "Good Morning America" Wednesday. "It was almost like talking to a hole, as though he wasn't there most of the time. He wore sunglasses and his hat very low so it was hard to see his face."

I have strong feelings on the matter, as you might imagine.

I bet.

I have a hard time even wrapping my head around why anyone thinks late-term abortions should even be up for political discussion. Nobody wakes up one morning during her third trimester and thinks "Hey, you know what would be fun today? Getting an abortion! Whee!" They are only ever performed when there is a serious medical need.

with a gun, yes. at the doctor, nsm.

I can't even talk about guns this week. The coffee shop where I was having lunch today had the news on (I can't remember which network, I think CNN), and they managed to seque from a segment on "OMG THE VIRGINIA TECH SHOOTER PLAYED VIDEO GAMES!" to one on "But the important thing to remember is that gun control is stupid."

Because, you know, letting people OWN GUNS is so much safer than letting them PLAY VIDEO GAMES. If we don't maintain our 2nd Amendment rights at all costs, gangs of teenagers will roam the streets hitting people on the head with Wiimotes! Chaos and anarchy will prevail!

They are only ever performed when there is a serious medical need.

Even without serious medical need. I have enough faith in the brains of women to say that we're not making the decision lightly. They are sooo banking on the stereotypical frivilous, doesn't-know-what-she-really-wants, probably selfish since she went and had the dirty sex, nasty view of women as somehow less capable of making an informed, rational decision. Nobody, but nobody has rights to my body but me. Period.

Though I realize I'm likely on the more radical side of the debate. Or at least it certainly seems it down here.

The "radical" side should be believing without overwhelming evidence that women ever do that shit lightly. The fact that it's not is testimony to how effectively they've been able to change the terms of the debate. Sickening.

I can't even talk about guns this week. The coffee shop where I was having lunch today had the news on (I can't remember which network, I think CNN), and they managed to seque from a segment on "OMG THE VIRGINIA TECH SHOOTER PLAYED VIDEO GAMES!" to one on "But the important thing to remember is that gun control is stupid."

Well and also, can we just be sad for a week? I mean maybe in a month or so, I'll feel like advocating stricter gun control or better mental health care or whatever. But for just a week at least, I just wanna be sad.

Well, right. I wasn't really trying to reference that incident, but I guess I could have played Stupid Right Wing Thought Tricks with capital punishment just as easily.

Even without serious medical need. I have enough faith in the brains of women to say that we're not making the decision lightly.

Oh, absolutely. And personally, I believe that reproductive rights are useless unless they are broad enough to allow for stupid people to make bad decisions. We don't just protect reasoned articulate speech (obviously, just watch 10 minutes of C-SPAN), we protect ALL free speech. Likewise, we should be protecting ALL reproductive rights even if some women will use them to make decisions we don't approve of. It's the only way off the slippery slope.

:: Links arms with Jessica. Sings "I Am Woman" ::