The OK Corral

Okay, kind of shooting a dead horse here, but this is quite important. I found a story about a Georgia city that actually mandated each house have a gun. People predicted "Wild Wild West" showdowns. Murder. Chaos. Anarchy. Etc.

Not one person in the town has been shot since the law was enacted. The population has exploded and crime has plummeted. Very important as most of the other statistics I mentioned earlier just show that banning guns does nothing to reduce crime. Evidently having guns does. I'm seriously done now. See the story here. Previous post here.

Clean-Up, Aisle Five

Why couldn't Cho have been this smart? If he wanted to show disdain for materialistic consumption, what could have been more appropriate than self-immolation in a Wal-Mart? Stupid little twat.

EDIT: Also, as I'm sure you've heard or will hear, he released a video to NBC which has since been forwarded to the FBI. And in it, I am not in the least bit shocked to find that he "discussed his religion and his hatred of the wealthy." See more here

Identity

I still remember seeing this episode of SVU. I think it was last summer when all USA network did was have marathons of SVU, Monk, and House. I was particularly impressed with how well the writers managed to come up with such a completely fucked up case with a villain so contemptable and vile that it could only exist in the realm of fiction. Unfortunately, however, I just discovered that it is, in fact, based entirely on the true story of David / Brenda / Bruce Reimer and his twin Brian. (My roommate is reading David's biography for his child development class.) They ended the episode rather apruptly as SVU usually does after unequivocatingly aprehending the culprit, but the real ending to the story is actually much more tragic. This is quite possibly the saddest story I've ever heard.

Adieu.

Saddam has been reunited with his lover in hell. Good bye.