someone else said it so i don't have to

This post is neither about pop nor tarts. Discuss.

I guess it falls under "and more" but it is way out of sync with the chipper tone of deniable plausibility. For that I apologize.

The Virginia Tech shootings are horrible. Things should have been different.

From Salon:

As humans do, we try to ensure that this awful spectacle of death was not for nothing. Hence our national soul-searching and debate. How could this happen? Is our society somehow to blame? Our values? Our gun laws? What could we have done differently to save this tortured soul?

But half a world away, similar horrors are happening every day -- horrors, unlike Seung-Hui Cho's slaughter, for which America bears direct responsibility. And we feel nothing.

The situation in Iraq is horrible. Things should have been different.