...with your own inner troll. S/He's demanding attention and you're refusing it. This only makes your inner troll angry and hurt. Then s/he counterattacks and your life ends up in a downhill slide.

Why else would you be under a proverbial bridge conversing with a troll, oh ye whose life possesses comic levels of ironee?

In spite of what you might think, I really don't have any man-love for Eric Schaeffer. But if you think I do, well, that's good enough for me. What do I know about my life? After all, by your own admission, I'm clueless.

This must be YOUR life that I have.

...we become more and more desensitized to the fact that we are in a battle, that we are in a fight. We lose our wits every time we pick up a sword.

Unless the corporate media picks up on our collective ire and chooses to encourage it, nothing happens.

VT is starting to look more and more like a staged event designed to distract us from what is going on inside the Beltway. I'd like to be able to research this connection between this sick kid, the Iraqi contractors who employ his older sister, and the CIA who insist that their recruiting and other activities on the VT campus have nothing to do with this sick kid cratering at the end of the semester.

He killed too many too quickly. The explanation floated in the media is that he played violent video games. Alot.

Sirhan Sirhan still claims he does not recall what happened in the weeks prior to his arrest at the Ambassador Hotel in 1968, but he was clearly agitated at the time. He was scheduled for release from Corcoran in 1984, but, even his model-prisoner status has not been enough to allow California law to apply to him.

There's a large and every-growing body of evidence to suggest that 3,000 innocent Americans were sacrificed with the direct knowledge of our government on 9/11 to promote a multi-billion dollar economic agenda. What makes anyone think that our government is above sacrificing 33 VT students to distract public attention away from Karl Rove's involvement in government sponsored evil?

I'm not saying, "for sure," I'm saying I'm suspicious of everything this administration has been involved in since Clinton was impeached under manufactured pretenses in 1998. Not that Clinton was such a wunnerful fella, just that no Republican has yet been able to withstand anything close to the kind of scrutiny Clinton endured and come up outside of a prison sentence.

A certain number of us get angry about something legitimate, then Rove does a few factorial analyses around the core of the angry mob and comes up with a divisive distraction that serves to keep the mob from coagulating into the kind of horde that it will take to get these punk thugs out of office.

It's happened too many times before for my cynicism to be mere coincidence. Either I've been driven completely mad by the attention I've been paying to these sick bastidges, or they really are as evil as I think they are.

We need to be getting angry at the government and particularly at this administration. Prior to the incident at VT, Virginia was known to be a conservative state chalk full of government consultants, military retirees and intelligence officers. If the dreams of impeachment were gaining any traction -- as they surely must be by now -- a very personal strike at the power center of the movement would act like a backfire, stealing the oxygen the primary fire that needs it for sustenance.

There's nothing more personal than losing a child, especially one who managed to make it all the way to VT and was doing well.

Among the conservatives likely to be intelligent enough to see the rampant abuse of the military and intelligence services and take counteractive measures, the fear of having their children held hostage and murdered would be paralyzing. An EVIL authority figure?! Why, that's unheard of!

For those of us who are of a more progressive disposition, abusive authority figures are precisely why we became progressives in the first place. We are suspicious of ANY concentration of power or authority ANYWHERE it occurs.

The problem is not Don Imus, the mentally ill, brown-skinned Muslims or illegal aliens. It's not even Virginia's ridiculous gun "dissemination" laws.

The problem is the fat pederast Karl Rove and the evil people whom he works for and with.

Focus your rage, hurt and anger on these people and these children will not have died in vain.