He's dropped the whole "I'm not going to say a word" idea

He's now in favor of remaining silent no longer.

I think that if you're going to write some long piece, Roman, about how you can be silent no longer and about how you should get to stay with your family and remain a free man and not face the consequences of forcing sex on an underage girl, you shouldn't start out with how you were cruelly arrested when you were on your way to pick up some lifetime achievement award.

death by broccoli

I've always respected vegetarians, but I've thought of veganism as ridiculous extremism. Now, there's a good reason to fear veganism: it can kill you.

dumb ideas in crime

A men was sentenced to prison for faking mental retardation and accepting disability payments. What busted him? He didn't behave as if he was developmentally disabled when he went to court for a traffic violation.

The article mentions that he began receiving benefits when he was 8 years old. There must have been something going on with him to receive benefits at that age, because it's highly unlikely an 8-year-old would be sophisticated enough to keep up such a ruse for years.

"happy" brownies

I've eaten my fair share of brownies, but I've never had one with marijuana. Some people do find enjoyment in them - even cops.

(HT: Althouse)

tragedy at Virginia Tech.

Truly horrible.

The tale of a survivor can be found here.

Here is the text of the president's televised remarks.

Naturally, the editorial at the New York Times labels more gun control as the solution:

Our hearts and the hearts of all Americans go out to the victims and their families. Sympathy was not enough at the time of Columbine, and eight years later it is not enough. What is needed, urgently, is stronger controls over the lethal weapons that cause such wasteful carnage and such unbearable loss.

Does the editor really think that nothing like this would ever happen if the U.S. had the strictest gun control policies that could be imagined? As long as human hearts are depraved, terrible events like this will continue to occur.

Check out 21 ways to minister to those who are suffering.

Update: Here are some of the faces of the slain. A simple, yet powerful, presentation.

Why did this tragedy occur and what do we do now? Doug Masson has some answers - not his, mind you, but other people's explanations.