By Dave Carpenter Reviewing the grimly fascinating fallout from Seung-Hui Cho’s Virginia Tech rampage and posthumous media spectre, I was particularly amazed by the Sunday New York Times’ colour-coded “info graphic,” illustrating how on average 81 Americans die each day from firearms. The cold hard truth that so many of them turn the barrel toward […]
Imagination is not reality
By Frank Moher We’d barely learned the identity of the Virginia Tech killer when the professional psych brigade told us they had him pegged. In heavy rotation on CNN Tuesday night was a psychiatrist offering her instant analysis of Cho Seung-Hui, based, among other things, on plays he wrote for a creative writing class. “You […]
