Too Lazy to Fail

(Scene: Paul and Tracie are laying in bed, looking at the ceiling. They’re not doing anything kinky, but just talking, preparing for sleep.)

Tracie: So did you hear that Rowling has declared that Dumbledore is gay?

Paul: Yeah, and what amazed me was the report that after the initial gasps at the announcement, there was cheering and applause. It’s like it’s no longer good enough to merely tolerate the homosexual lifestyle, but now we as a society are reveling in it and holding it up as something to be admired.

Tracie: Yeah…

Paul: Yeah…

Tracie: …

Paul: …

(Paul attempts to break up the awkward silence after his mini-sermon.)

Paul: Snape kills Dumbledore, you know.

Tracie: Yeah, I know. Do you think they’ll prosecute it as a hate crime now?

http://wbztv.com/topstories/local_story_285113734.html

Kennedy underwent the hour-long procedure at Massachusetts General Hospital on Friday morning to repair his left carotid artery - a major supplier of blood to the neck and head. WBZ has learned that artery was 70 percent blocked.

Wait. This explains everything!

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Oh, dear. It looks like a middle-schooler has decided to pull a Cho, but failed to off anyone but himself.

A few observations.

“It’s a shining beacon for the Cleveland Metropolitan School System,” said John Zitzner, founder and president of E City Cleveland, a nonprofit group aimed at teaching business skills to inner-city teens. “It’s orderly, it’s disciplined, it’s calm, it’s focused.”

Oh, then this comes as a surprise to everyone.

A fellow student at SuccessTech Academy alternative school said the shooter, who was suspended for fighting two days earlier, had made threats in front of students and teachers last week.

“He’s crazy. He threatened to blow up our school. He threatened to stab everybody,” Doneisha LeVert said. “We didn’t think nothing of it.”

LeVert, the student, said Coon was a “gothic” who usually wore a trench coat, black boots and a dog collar.

A dog collar? Right. Sounds perfectly orderly, disciplined, calm, and focused.

Police Chief Michael McGrath said it appeared that the shooter used two weapons, but added that the coroner’s office will need to finish its work to confirm that. Parents were angry that firearms got into a school equipped with metal detectors.

Blackwell said there was a security guard on the first floor, but that the position of another guard on the third floor had been eliminated sometime earlier.

Arming middle-schoolers, obviously, will never happen. This incident is a decent example to cite, however, when a person who regularly goes armed is asked to disarm, and is assured of a “safe” environment, protected by guards and metal detectors. When it comes to your personal safety, the buck stops at you. When everyone else has betrayed you, failed you due to their incompetence, fled from the danger of your defense, or been bested by a more skillful or better-equiped adversary, the last person who can ensure your safety is you. Carry your gun. Keep your eyes open. Get training.

It’s also interesting that the shooter, like Cho, carried two guns. We are fortunate that, unlike Cho, this young man was not skilled enough, not motivated enough, or neither, to inflict the kind of mass casualties that we saw at Virginia Tech.

Less fortunate, considering the two-gun armament of the shooter, was a picture posted on the front page of SuccessTech Academy: