Category Archives: Scribbles

Vonnegut, an 84-year-old chainsmoker

Posted on April 18, 2007 | Comments Off on Vonnegut, an 84-year-old chainsmoker

Doesn’t surprise me that I don’t remember this detail about him in the obits I read. Apparently only Imus got him to reveal that he chainsmoked Pall Malls, though V knew it wasn’t PC to talk about it. Banjo Jones, who is trying to quit, has the story. Myself, who is not trying to quit, merely posts it.

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The monster Cho

Posted on April 18, 2007 | Comments Off on The monster Cho

Media savvy enough to make and send a video to NBCNews after his first two killings. Maybe we’ll find out what Ismail Ax meant. He may not have been a jihadi, but he’s read their playbook.

UPDATE  Or maybe we won’t. MSNBC is playing gatekeeper with it, showing only what they deem worthy of our consumption.

LAST UPDATE  NBC finally showed it and MSNBC made the clips available on the Web. Then the avalanch of protest began. Including this apology for the rest of the MSM from Don Surber at the Charleston (WVA) Daily Mail. I get it, but I don’t agree. Despicable as it was, the video and other materials the cockroach Cho left behind are, by definition, news, and it wasn’t NBC’s duty to shield our sensitivities by hiding it. It was their duty to release it. Maybe they could have done it better. I didn’t watch them and I won’t view the clips. But they did the right thing. 

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The hero

Posted on April 18, 2007 | Comments Off on The hero

As Michael, a commenter at SimplyJews, puts it: "So many Holocaust survivors feel guilty, wondering why they lived when others died. I guess we now know why Prof Librescu lived."

So far, Israeli engineering professor and Holocaust survivor Liviu Librescu, 77, is the only one of the victims of Virginia Tech killer Seung Cho known to have fought back. He blocked a door while his students jumped out windows. If a few had stayed to help him, would it all have turned out the same?

UPDATE  Nice to be in such company as Mark Steyn: "It is a poor reflection on us that, in those first critical seconds where one has to make a decision, only an elderly Holocaust survivor, Professor Librescu, understood instinctively the obligation to act."

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Racism in the Bundeswehr

Posted on April 17, 2007 | Comments Off on Racism in the Bundeswehr

How far Hitler’s mighty Wehrmacht has fallen. Cursing in English, at African Americans. How weird.

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They weren’t all sheep

Posted on April 17, 2007 | Comments Off on They weren’t all sheep

It’s good to know that some of the Virginia victims fought back, including Liviu Librescu, 77. They didn’t all go to the slaughter like sheep. I hope there prove to be more.

UPDATE  Pictures and bios of the dead, including Prof. Librescu. And one Texas school district’s reply.

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Not Chinese, Korean

Posted on April 17, 2007 | Comments Off on Not Chinese, Korean

The author of the Virginia Tech massacre was a 23-year-old resident alien South Korean, Cho Seung Hui, who grew up in Fairfax County, Va., a Washington suburb, and graduated from high school there. Seung Cho the monster, revealed through his plays. Always the best roundup of the latest, here.

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Death and taxes

Posted on April 15, 2007 | Comments Off on Death and taxes

Several thousand dollars poorer, we are ready to mail our federal taxes and forms tomorrow for another year. There’s lots of complaints I could think of to complain about but why bother. In truth much of what we pay for in federal taxes is necessary, and the stuff that isn’t there isn’t much of anything we can do about.

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