{"id":25,"date":"2007-04-26T07:24:04","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T15:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weeklyrob.dreamhosters.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2007-04-26T07:24:04","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T15:24:04","slug":"i-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"I Exist!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I’ve been preoccupied with baby and work (and the occasional nap). And since I really don’t want this blog to be about work or my private life, I haven’t had a lot to say. <\/font> The shootings in VA happened while I was in a vacuum. I didn’t hear about them at all until a few days afterwards. It’s strange to read all the news articles about the aftermath without having read the ones about the actual event.<\/font> And they all assume that you know what they’re talking about, of course. “The massacre at Virginia Tech.”<\/font> I don’t have much to say here. The way I heard about the shootings was by turning on an AM radio station and being yelled at by a right-wing-generic-host going on about how this shows that students should be allowed to be armed. Apparently, guns are not allowed in the dorms or classes, and this guy is pissed about that. I don’t know whether it was Rush or Boortz or someone else.<\/p>\n

Of course, every time there’s a shooting, I hear all about gun control from the right-wing. That’s fine. Those radio hosts have to make their money somehow, and I understand that it’s not interesting to just talk about sadness or horror without talking about how it’s someone’s fault beside the shooter.<\/p>\n

I know that someone is going to say that the liberals talk about how it’s someone else’s fault (the conservatives who allow the shooter to get HIS gun). It’s just that I don’t hear that on the radio. All I hear is the right-wing saying that we need more guns on the street.<\/p>\n

I’m sure the lefties are out there saying their thing, but I guess I don’t listen to, or read, whatever media they use to say it. They’re not saying it on NPR or the few AM stations I tune into when NPR is playing opera.<\/p>\n

Speaking of NPR, Ira Glass, the host of “This American Life,” is coming to Atlanta to speak this Sunday. I’m going, along with a motley assortment of others, including my mother, who’s in town for the baby.<\/p>\n

And that’s it. No main theme to this post, but I did want to check in and say something before the blog becomes TWO weeks old without being refreshed.<\/p>\n

For light reading:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/6547881.stm<\/font><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

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So, I’ve been preoccupied with baby and work (and the occasional nap). And since I really don’t want this blog to be about work or my private life, I haven’t had a lot to say. The shootings in VA happened while I was in a vacuum. I didn’t hear about them at all until a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanity","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}