Just Horrible

Today's atrocity is a horrible thing. I give my condolences to the families of the victims and to the victims themselves. A couple of ponderings came up today when I was thinking about the events of today: limelight stealing, gloryhound assholes like Jack Thompson live for things like this to push their agenda, and this kind of stuff happens everyday in places like Iraq. For those less informed, Jack Thompson is an attorney hellbent on outlawing all video games on the grounds that they are some kind of murder simulators. Anyway, today he's already blaming the massacre on video games, but the identity of the shooter hasn't even been made public yet. How this guy gets air time (Fox News today) completely baffles me. People are killed just about everyday in Iraq. Car bombs go off in crowded places killing many people, and they certainly get coverage, but the effect is quite different on people. Obviously, when it's closer to home it hits a little harder, but I find it interesting that the events in Iraq hardly even get a mention at the office. Just an observation.