Five years ago this week, I awoke at about one in the afternoon to images on the television of a building under siege. Figuring it to be just another in the long line of such images emanating from Kosovo at the time, I dragged my carcass out of bed and idled from my fourth floor room in Funelle Hall to the dining hall downstairs. It wasn't until I was sitting down, scarfing down cardboard and …showed first 75 words of 874 total…

…showed last 75 words of 874 total…deterioration of the manufacturing base means that kids can't even count on the mediocre lives their parents have been trapped in. <Tab/>Constantine's soliloquy goes on for pages, and is the best-thought-out and best-written take on school shootings that was presented in The United States immediately following Columbine. Straying from Seduction of the Gun terrirtory, the guns themselves aren't vilified--but the culture that would drive children to pick them up are.