By Marke B.
Maybe I’ve become horribly desensitized to unexpected, unexplainable, realtime violence in the past four years, thanks to constant devastating casualty reports coming back from the country we fucked up even more, but the first thing that jumped into my head on hearing about Virginia Tech — other than thinking the AP had made a typo when they reported 29 dead an hour after reporting 1 dead — was: “Isn’t this what it’s like in Iraq, like, three times a day?”
The V-Tech tragedy is horrendous and hits geographically closer to home, but try watching this, called “Brains on Campus,” from the amazing “Hometown Baghdad” series of independently produced vids, and not freaking out about the terror that Iraqi college students have been going through for years during our occupation.