Status Updates From Going Postal: Rage, Murder,...

You compensate in all the wrong ways. You wind up looking for someone weaker to bully yourself, you lose confidence and hate your weakness, and you fear and distrust the wrong people, all of which are reasons why bullied kids overwhelmingly wind up as failures in the real world, according to recent studies.

The terrorist slaughter on 9/11 seemed to put a temporary freeze on rage murders, both in schoolyards and in offices. A lot of stuff was put on hold then- including the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and even this book, which was started and abruptly canceled after my first publisher's editor told me, in the aftermath of 9/11, "There's no way we can sell a book like this now."

Here he worked for the state lottery, which by definition is already a sleazy enterprise, a government-run scam that preys, like all gambling dens, on the desperate dreams of predominately lower-class fools.

But even within this 90-percent demographic, Hansel proved that he had gone the extra mentally ill mile with his murder spree. That's about the most basic definition of good mental health there is: you only kill people when your government tells you to. Murder under any other circumstance-particularly if because you feel aggrieved-is ipso facto a sign of severe illness.

Oddly enough, the first year that the federal government stopped subsidizing the USPS, 1983, was also the year of the first post office shooting, in Johnston, South Carolina.

Only a man with an Ames background can say phrase like this:

«Washington, however—much like the Russian oligarchs of the 1990s—saw the value in those vouchers, and how they could be manipulated to his advantage.»

Cullen rides this line of reasoning further down the light rail line of idiocy, implying that Harris was a Hitler in the making who was stopped in the nick of time, and we should all be grateful that he only managed to kill a dozen students or else he surely would have gassed us all.

Blaming the French Revolution and the slave rebellion in Hispaniola is Monroe's version of blaming Marilyn Manson and violent video games.

In my own experience, this cheerfulness, this desperate smile, is one of the most corrosive features to daily life in America, one of the greatest alienators—a key toxic ingredient in the cultural poison

Honestly this is not well written and I have a slight feeling I’m not saying this early. There are aspects of his shock-jock journalistic tone that are endearing to me, especially as his reporting is detailed. It’s a style that works best when he lets the absurdity of a tragic event, or the hypocrisy of its background racketeers, generate its own, often tragic-comic, conclusion.

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