Pong - the only video game I could actually play!

It's funny you brought this up Brian because I was jusy saying to someone that I felt that way. Of course I am empathetic and have sympathy for the families etc. but there is no shock because of Columbine, Oklahoma City and of course 9/11.

9/11 was different for me because I was close to it, knew people, my husband works in NYC many people from our area died that day and so I was obsessed with the news coverage but with when things are further away you don't have that same connection-
it doesn't mean you don't think it's horrific it's just different.

As for the news, I won't watch anything about this guy because to me it serves no purpose, we know he was mentally ill and showing everyone doesn't help or change it.
Disclaimer: the "we" I'm using is the public not anyone specific who has posted here- smile

We do blame the media (and sometimes rightfully so) for not showing us more on Iraq, Darfur, the slums of Sao Paulo Brazil, etc but we shouldn't sit back and let the media do our homework for us- pick up a couple of different newspaper, search the interenet, read, read, read (and I'm not saying I do this all the time, I don't so I'm challenging myself too!) but if we're really interested in something than we should take the initiative to find out about it ourselves and not expect "Inside Edition" to do that or even the nightly news -

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