Check out the English version of pravda.ru for a Buddhist tie-in to the Virginia Tech killer. (They have an interesting take on the Imus situation too. If you’re at all interested in how this Pravda connects with the well-known Soviet publication, see here. I’m guessing the Soviet one was a little less lewd, though the comments about the U.S. and Europe in the contemporary version wouldn’t be out of place in the Brezhnev era. . . Brezhnev had incredibly intimidating eyebrows.) What this article really shows is a preposterous amount of overthinking and overanalysis bordering on the whimsical in our collective need to make sense of events like these. In this as in every tragedy, our focus should really be on remembering the victims. Philip Ryan, Webmaster
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