Bad things happen to other people

[brinker]

The president of the student government was shot the day before yesterday.  He was driving back to Logar province and somehow the Taliban caught/shot him.  He took one bullet to the stomach and another to the leg.  The first person I heard it from (a housemate who is one of his teachers) had heard about it the day it happened and said he was in

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[colonelperry42n]

Luckily, I haven't been reading much of the bombing back home. . .that either says I'm a well-rounded person who knows how to filter out stuff, or I'm a horrible person who doesn't keep up with world news :p

America is full of random weirdos with identity crises is all I have to say on the bombing. . .I'm with you on the America-centric media, though. . .it's really getting old. They've just recently started talking about the drones in Pakistan, that's something, but it's really not enough.

[kanzeon_2040]

Our media and talk radio do go on and on about stuff that is categorized as "terrorism". I think this is because the folks in power in the US worry more about violence that is supposedly directed at them, than about everything else that ever happens to anybody ever.

It reminds me of a couple of serial killers in the US, about 10 years ago, who were sniping at customers at suburban gas stations or restaurant parking lots in the DC area. This ongoing random violence received a lot of media coverage, and frightened a lot of suburban folks. I lived in downtown DC at the time, very close to public housing and open air drug markets. And I overheard some people from my neighborhood complaining that we get people shot at all the time downtown, and nobody cares. But if there's a serial killer at loose in the suburbs, everybody freaks out. Well, that's where the powerful people live, in the suburbs. Nobody in the media business cares about poor people getting shot, because they aren't poor and don't think they ever will be.

[brinker]

Yeah, this is likely very true....