What is it about spring and whackjobs killing students?

Today, an as yet unnamed shooter killed 33 people (including himself) at Virginia Tech University.  Horrific details which will be made manifest over the next few days, drawing comparisons to Columbine and the University of Texas’ famed tower.

The perpetrators of those, however, were pikers compared to a school trustee who resented a local school’s tax drain on his pocketbook.
Andrew P. Kehoe killed 45 people — the great majority of whom were children in grades two through six — with an enormous amount of explosives on May 18, 1927 in Bath, Michigan.  He and his wife — his first victim — are included in the count.

Saith Mr Brain’s Faggot Family,

“The great British faggot is full of flavour and a great belly warmer at this time of year.” — BBC

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Steve Olson decries a once brave and sure people well en-route to becoming a surveillance state.

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Would you believe . . . a Cane toad with five legs?

Around Easter, you’d be hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t been gnawing chocolate bunnies and eggs.

About half the world’s cocoa comes from Ivory Coast, Africa, where Stop the Traffik estimates some 12,000 children have been trafficked to harvest cocoa beans. The children are not paid for their work.

Large chocolate companies aren’t particularly worried about this; after all, you don’t care, do you?

“Okay, call it slavery, but you know they’re dirt poor down there anyway…”
(Nestlé spokesperson, quoted on Tony Chocolonely)

Though attention to the trafficking of children has been gaining momentum in the United Kingdom, the chocolate connection doesn’t seem to have taken off in North America.

Stop the Traffik has a MySpace site with links to relevant information.