Timelies all!

Ugh. Just...ugh. Horrible day.(not for me, but for too many other people)

Oh jeez, it's so sad and traumatic for Ryan Lanza. His brother kills off his whole family and he gets blamed for it.

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And elsewhere, reports began to emerge claiming that Ryan Lanza's brother, Adam, 20, was actually the suspect whose body was recovered at the crime scene.

The question was also fueled by claims on Twitter from people who said they were friends with Ryan Lanza on Facebook — and that he had posted a simple declaration on his profile page in which he allegedly stated, "It wasn't me I was at work it wasn't me."

According to reports published by The New York Post and elsewhere, Ryan Lanza, 24, was questioned by police Friday. According to The Newtown Patch, Ryan Lanza "told friends that he thinks his developmentally disabled brother may have committed the crime."

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How does somebody who's developmentally disabled get multiple guns? Except now that I think about it, you don't have to submit a Proof of Sanity to buy a gun.

How does somebody who's developmentally disabled get multiple guns?

Live in the goddamn US of A.

I heard one report that Adam Lanza has asperger's (or related). I know asperger's is supposed to fall out of favor as a diagnosis, just repeating something I think I read on the AP stream.

Dag.

Without a lock on the door, the school’s lead teacher pressed her body against the door to hold it shut, Ms. Day said. That teacher was shot through the door in the leg and arm.

As Fred Rogers' mom said, "Look for the helpers."

I heard one report that Adam Lanza has asperger's (or related). I know asperger's is supposed to fall out of favor as a diagnosis, just repeating something I think I read on the AP stream.

Autistic spectrum disorders are no longer separated in the DSM V. Which is pants, for the record.

Oh jeez, it's so sad and traumatic for Ryan Lanza. His brother kills off his whole family and he gets blamed for it.

This is why speculation in front of the facts is not good.

This is why speculation in front of the facts is not good.

I am not a news organization. I am not disseminating the information to the world at large. I am talking about it to a closed circle of friends.

There's a difference.

There's a difference.

The desire of the individual to have information before there is information to be had drives the news organizations. If there wasn't an audience for speculation, they wouldn't be reporting ahead of the facts.

So, no. There's not.

(I do understand the impulse, to be clear. People want to know and understand something not understandable. I still think that at all levels it does more harm than good.)