I was right -- I packed the defective sound system into the car, drove over to Sears to exchange it for the replacement -- and then was told that the salesman I needed to see wasn't working that day. *grrr!* He's supposed to be working tomorrow, so hopefully I'll finally get a working system!
There was plenty of discussion today about the two boys down in Arkansas who killed five people at their school. As always seems to happen after an event like this, gun control advocates point to it as an example of why we need gun control laws. I'm very much in favor of gun control laws, but I've always felt that this type of tragedy is not a good example of why such laws are needed. The number of people who die in these incidents is very small; gun control laws aren't needed to stop this. Rather, gun control laws are needed to reduce the one-person-at-a-time killing that goes on day-in and day-out. These mass killings grab the headlines and the air time, but they do so precisely because they are so rare.
Does anyone else have the feeling that Boris Yeltsin is not all there these days?
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