I generally don’t try to read too much into events such as yesterday’s killings at an Amish school. But one point here is obvious: if a “Christian” father of three can walk into an Amish school and kill several students, “senseless” tragedy can occur anywhere.
I sometimes see bad stories on the news and think, “Good thing stuff like that doesn’t happen around here.” It’s true it’s highly unlikely I will ever witness a tragedy like that. But there’s certainly nothing inherent to shield me from it. No one is completely safe.

I just heard “America’s Anchorman” on WGOP-AM suggest (“just thinking aloud”) that Mark Foley may have been “set up” from the get go. After all, how hard would it be to get to one of these Congressional pages?
The party of personal responsibility strikes again.
UPDATE: Media Matters has a quote:

LIMBAUGH: I’m just thinking out loud here. What if somebody got to the page and said, you know, we want you to set Foley up. We need to do a little titillating thing here. Keep it and save it and so forth. How would you get a kid to do that? Yeah, who knows? You threaten him or pay him. There’s any number of ways given the kind of people that we’re dealing with and talking about here.

I know the Democrats are bad at coordinating things, but really–if they were really conspiring to set someone up, would this be the best thing they could come up with? Text messages to a Florida Congressman? Yeah, forget our state of war and economic issues, this is the fault line which is going to bring a political upheaval.

Yep:

Billionaire investor and dot-com veteran Mark Cuban had harsh words Thursday for YouTube, the online site that lets people share video clips, saying only a “moron” would purchase the wildly popular start-up.
Cuban, co-founder of HDNet and owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, also said YouTube would eventually be “sued into oblivion” because of copyright violations.
“They are just breaking the law,” Cuban told a group of advertisers in New York. “The only reason it hasn’t been sued yet is because there is nobody with big money to sue.”

I’m not an expert on the economics of corporate acquisitions, but he’s correct on the copyright issue. I’m surprised YouTube already hasn’t been taken to court for this.
I recently set up a YouTube playlist, and my assumption is that every video I’ve included is technically a copyright violation. But, it will be fun for users while it lasts . . . .

Heh. If only the factory workers had something on hand to extinguish the fire . . . .
Even the product description is contradictory. It says: “Chimfex sticks are indispensable as your first line of defense for controlling fires.” But then: “CAUTION: ALWAYS CALL YOUR LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENT FIRST!” So I guess the sticks are your “first” defense after you call the fire department.

I came across this CIA’s Online ‘Personality Quiz’.
I didn’t think it could be as bad as described, so I went ahead and tried it. Found out two things:
(1) The quiz determined I’m a “curious adventurer,” and
(2) If that website is indicative of the type of recruiting the CIA is doing, then it’s no surprise if American intelligence is in bad shape.
Not only is the quiz silly (what kind of superpower do you want?) but the results don’t make a connection to anything. So I’m a “curious adventurer,” so what? I didn’t see a link to any related CIA careers. Or if there was one, it wasn’t obvious enough for me to see it. What’s the point? It appears to be a weak PR tool.