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In the flurry of media content surrounding the shootings, there’s always room for items that surprise no one.


It’s the Information Age (…I cringed too); we have the ability to discover all sorts of minutiae on any number of newsworthy items.  Why, then, do the recent events at VA Tech – and the now-obligatory reaction to ferret out whatever details we can – make me uneasy?
Maybe it’s because of the lingering fear that [...]


Man Jumps to Death Off Empire State Building (via Gothamist). Sad. Not to mention therapy-inducing for the poor guy who spotted the leg.
Apparently the building itself has been host to at least thirty suicides in its years of existence.