I have connected with both Stephanie and Kyle today, sending text messages, emails and phone calls telling them I love them. I am still trying to wrap my mind around what happened at Virginia Tech yesterday. And the sad thing is, I get it more than most people. Sadly, I understand how warped some people can be. And I really understand how "normal" truly disturbed people can appear to folks who don't grasp the depth of the person's pathology. One of the dorm mates of the Virginia Tech shooter stated: "He did not seem like a guy that's capable... more

Yesterday, as the horrible events were unfolding at Virginia Tech, I was oblivious to it. I was presenting to over a hundred members of the Rotary Club. And this is one of the slides I was sharing… The text comes from here:

Princeton's Katherine Newman points out that, far from being "loners", the perpetrators are "joiners" whose attempts at social integration fail, that they let their thinking and even their plans be known, sometimes... more