It's Been Said....

  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...