It was 12 years ago last week when two students at Columbine High School used a variety of weapons, including homemade propane bombs, a shotgun, a semi-automatic rifle and a 9mm handgun in a massacre that left 12 of their classmates and one teacher dead before both shooters committed suicide. In the days before the … Continue reading Janie’s Got A Gun
Month: April 2011
Why can’t we be friends?
“We are reckless in our use of the lovely word, friend.” --Romain Rolland If he were alive today, I wonder what Mr. Rolland, a French journalist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915, would think about Facebook and its use of the word “friend.” How many “friends” do you have? According to the … Continue reading Why can’t we be friends?
Pocketful of Kryptonite
Although it was 30 years ago this week, I still remember the day like it was yesterday. I came home from high school and flipped on the television. The news was on, and that was strange because this was long before the days of CNN, MSNBC or Fox News. Back then, there was no such … Continue reading Pocketful of Kryptonite
