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There was notice of potential lawsuits today, regarding the VA Tech shooting six months ago.   The lawyers seem to think that the the police didn’t do their job. More than two hours elapsed between the dormitory slayings and Cho’s rampage at Norris Hall, and police initially thought the first shootings were an act of [...]

What is worse than missing your favorite show? (/rant on) Recording it on DVR and it’s great.   So great that the cliffhanger at the end is eclipsed only by the ‘next week’ preview at the end of the show….which ends about 4 seconds prior to the part of the preview you wanted to see [...]

Sitemeter is an interesting tool.   I’ve discovered that most of my hits that result from search engines are in regards to the Dumb 911 calls I write about, and the title of a post in April 2004 that has the lyrics of a song by Dexter Freebish.   Weird.   That and someone from [...]

The toddler killed in North Charleston by the hit and run driver is tragic, I will not dispute that.   It does leave a few questions, however.   Why was a two year old in the street, unaccompanied by a responsible adult?   How the hell do you run over a child and say ‘I [...]

I was perusing CNN, because I’m a CNN junkie thanks to my time in the USAF, and I found this story.   Sounds like a boy being a boy to me.   But this part bothered me: The smoke did not become a full-fledged fire, but firefighters did about $500 in damage when they cut [...]