Reboot 2011, please

[sigma7]

I was randomly websurfing and flipping through Wikipedia -- as is my wont -- the other day when I stumbled headlong onto the entry for Leo Ryan, the congressman who was investigating Jonestown and killed in 1978...but I noted with no small sense of surprise that the article mentioned that he was the first and only congressman to be killed in the line of duty. Until today.

Simply intolerable.

Comments

[manekikoneko.livejournal.com]

Holy shit.

[manekikoneko.livejournal.com]

HuffPo says she's in surgery, might not be dead. Small comfort.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Small comfort indeed. I'm too young to be looking at the news and going "What is this world coming to?"

[vulpisfoxfire.livejournal.com]

You're never old enough for that. *sigh* It's things like this that make that one-way Mars trip look downright appealing...

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Most recent word is that she's still alive and in surgery. But shot in the head at point-blank range...it's going to be touch-and-go for a while. :/

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I've found a pattern. If I add ambiguity, reports say she's dead. I say she's dead, reports say she's alive. So I'm keeping it for now -- and wouldn't mind being wrong in this instance at all.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Heh. Right there with you.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Little did anyone realize a barely-read LJ could function as a remote life-support device.

[notthebuddha.livejournal.com]

She is expected to live, but a kid got killed. I'm on a college buddy mailing list with a guy that works with her husband:

> Any news yet on the shooter? Word is they caught him.

Jared Lee Loughner. He has a YouTube channel:

<http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=classitup10&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_564778>

A poster on NASASpaceFlight.com watched the videos, so I don't have to:

"Actually, I went and watched all 5 videos just so I would know what I was talking about when the inevitable political accusations start.  My analysis: inconclusive.  I'd say anti-government in general, lists both Mein Kampf and Communist Manifesto as favorite books.  I would've said right of center, but a high school classmate on twitter remembers him as far left...  Little difference, at some point the extremes also become indistinguishable from each other. "