Cho and Sanjaya with Satan and Moses
Bad week for Asian-Americans. A South Korean shot 33 students and teachers in Virginia Tech. As a result, Sanjaya of American Idol was booted out. Reason: Bad vocals. But he was always bad since Day One. You know the real reason why. And then, Vonnegut died. If you read his novels, one of them, I think it's Jailbird, started with the Texas Tower Shooter.
Gary Lavergne wrote about the Texas Tower Shooter and in Chronicles of Higher Education, he wrote: "On August 1, 1966, Charles Joseph Whitman ascended the University of Texas Tower, in Austin, and in 96 minutes fired 150 high-powered rounds of ammunition down upon an unsuspecting university family. Students, faculty and staff members, and visitors heard "strange noises" and thought nothing of it until they saw bodies and blood on the sidewalks. The shooter killed or wounded nearly 50 people that day. The Whitman story is enduring because it was our introduction to public mass murder and school shootings. It also preys on our worst fear: A stranger aims and kills you because he wants to -- and he doesn't give a damn that he, too, is about to die."
Will P gave us this chilling image:
Compounding our problem are the European press who blamed Charlton Heston for the VT massacre. Heston, if you watched Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine, is the poster boy of the very powerful National Rifle Association. Heston, of course, is also Moses.
Gary Lavergne wrote about the Texas Tower Shooter and in Chronicles of Higher Education, he wrote: "On August 1, 1966, Charles Joseph Whitman ascended the University of Texas Tower, in Austin, and in 96 minutes fired 150 high-powered rounds of ammunition down upon an unsuspecting university family. Students, faculty and staff members, and visitors heard "strange noises" and thought nothing of it until they saw bodies and blood on the sidewalks. The shooter killed or wounded nearly 50 people that day. The Whitman story is enduring because it was our introduction to public mass murder and school shootings. It also preys on our worst fear: A stranger aims and kills you because he wants to -- and he doesn't give a damn that he, too, is about to die."
Will P gave us this chilling image:
Compounding our problem are the European press who blamed Charlton Heston for the VT massacre. Heston, if you watched Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine, is the poster boy of the very powerful National Rifle Association. Heston, of course, is also Moses.
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