It's Been Said....

Why did you decide to write about Sue Klebold? Question #2 in the series of questions posed to me by a high school student from Medellin Columbia! This one was supposed to be easy. Or so I thought. Well, perhaps a little easier than the others. That's not how it turned out to be, though. Reality can sometimes pretty much kick one in the rear. This is one of those times. In that vein, I never really made a conscious decision to write about Sue Klebold. That decision was, quite literally, made for me by the Colorado Attorney General's Office when they put out the Tweet regarding the 20/20 interview Sue Klebold did with Diane Sawyer. The fact Sue was a target of this Tweet made me angry....very, very angry. I previously shared this screen shot in another blog post entitled "Sue Klebold, what WERE you thinking?"  That title may have given potential readers a kind of misleading impression that I was going to castigate Sue for doing what she was doing. I...

What would you say to Sue Klebold's son (remaining nameless) if he were still alive today? This is the very first question in a series of questions asked of me by Maria Paula Castaño, a young student from Medellin, Columbia, South America. Because this person asked me what would I say to Sue Klebold's son, but didn't mention the Harris's son, I won't be talking about the Harris's son in this blog post even though he's the one who shot my daughter. Honestly, wow! How should this get answered? Seriously, how would anyone even come close to being able to wrap their head around something like this, much less be coherent, concise, analytical, and realistic in any answer they might come up with? Seriously, how would you answer this question? That's the dilemma I'm faced with in this. You see, I'd wager many of us having gone through Columbine  as the adults in the room, so to speak, would approach answering this question from a more '...

  Joseph Duplessis Portrait of Benjamin Franklin Wikimedia Commons “We are all born ignorant, but one must work  hard to remain stupid.” Interestingly enough, my previous post  castigating the Colorado Attorney General's Office for their incredibly ignorant and insensitive Tweet regarding the 20/20 interview that Sue Klebold participated in has generated nothing but silence from that office. Perhaps they could have at least thought twice about what they were saying before they said it? I don't know. You'd think an office this high up in the state government hierarchy would have the common sense to do so, but..... Make no mistake: the white hot anger I felt while generating my response to that Tweet has abated somewhat in intensity, but it has not gone away. Not by any stretch of the imagination. There will be no rehash of things said in that post. There will, however, be a bit of clarification as to why I went off the way I did. In the arena of s...

With all the hoopla preceding Diane Sawyer's SILENCE BROKEN: A Mother's Reckoning  with Sue Klebold, the Mother of one of the killers in the atrocity known as 'Columbine', it is incumbent on all of us to sit back, to take a collective breath, and to breathe a sigh of relief that it's over; that we can now move forward once again after having put all of this behind us. Or is it, really? Should we really expect everything to once again go back to the way it was before this interview? Should we really expect everything to once again go back to the way it was before each and every anniversary? Should we expect anything different to even come out of what Sue Klebold has to say? Really? Should we? What did YOU expect? Anything? Were you looking for something extraordinary? Perhaps some closure? Perhaps some revelation? Perhaps an epiphany? Were you appalled by what she had to say? Comforted, perhaps? Maybe even a bit sympathetic? How about empathetic? What? All th...

“Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.” (Konrad Lorenz) Keeping the quote above in mind, I offer the following: Given what is going on right now near Burns, OR, might it also be said at least the second part of this quote applies to those from "outside" that specific area regarding what is actually going on? I mean, there are all KINDS of people weighing in with their perspectives on what's going on, what precipitated it, and what needs to be done. By the same token, perhaps it should also apply to most of those "inside" the area, as well, especially those holding the Wildlife Refuge in their "standoff" with the government even as we speak? After all, those folks have their own "unique" perspectives on what's going on, what precipitated it, and wh...

Are things really as bad in this country as the Bundy Bunch out in Oregon is making them out to be? Think about it. Government BAD! Bundy Bunch GOOD! That's what we're hearing, at least from them. There's even a County Sheriff, the 'People's Sheriff' no less, who appeared on a radio show on The Blaze Network (Glenn Beck sound familiar?) advocating his insanity. Don't believe me? Here it is: The Siege in Burns, Oregon - The People's Sheriff 01/09/16 This guy is from Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, to be exact. That, in and of itself, should pretty much disqualify him from having any say whatsoever in how this incident is being handled in Oregon. But there's more. Oh, yes, there is much more. His 'opinion' (anecdotal evidence - more on that later) in this ongoing debacle disparages his professional colleague on-scene for his handling of this incident. You heard that right. He disses his own colleague....one of his own. Add to that his views ar...