hey the washpost has quite an excellent piece on vatech by lionel shriver today. i personally am sceptical of her (i have it good authority that lionel is female) claim that you could prevent such events by reducing the coverage, though it's hard to deal with the strange combination of "we are in mourning" solemnity with extreme sensationalism that you get on the cable networks. but anyway, shriver writes pointed, angry prose. and her points that we're now going to see a set of oppressions that are incompatible with education, and that the first thing we always do is try to blame someone are the right things to say.