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Probably better to air than fester, you can do it better than most. Sadly I don't think this will be forgotten by mothers taking children to school. Thank you Pat. 
posted by
C_C_T
on December 17, 2012 at 12:01 AM
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PatB
As long as you don't charge me for the therapy I read applicable to me from your writing, no apologies are necessary, I always owe you sis.
posted by
WileyJohn
on December 16, 2012 at 12:18 PM
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As far as I'm concerned you can do no wrong here.
posted by
TAPS.
on December 16, 2012 at 11:16 AM
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I wouldn't have missed your post yesterday for anything. I so often find
you a voice of Sanity and Sensibility in a crazy World. so
on dear one.
I personally find the media feasting goulish and introverted. Beyond news reporting. Makes me sick so that was why I wrote a nonsense song last night. If the mass media would/could report the way you do, I would be watching still!!
posted by
Kabu
on December 16, 2012 at 9:19 AM
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I am glad you wrote out your thoughts here, Pat.
There is a difference between a personal rant about personal stuff, and speaking out against institutionalized insanity that affects us all.
And I, for one, am resisting any impulse to turn away from what happened in Connecticut. Yes, it hurts, but sometimes it takes pain to stir us to do something about a sickness.
Your words are well-said and well-placed here in the Blogit fields. Thank you for them!
posted by
Ciel
on December 16, 2012 at 8:09 AM
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Pat
There's no need to apologize! I fully understand what moved you to write as you did, and it was good that you did...
I am often just speechless in the face of tragedy, partly because even the 'answers' never quite seem to be answers...
The well-known American sociologist C. Wright Mills (well-known at least among sociologists, LOL), in his book The Sociological Imagination, distinguishes between ‘public issues’ and ‘private troubles’, though clearly the two sometimes intersect, as in this case. I have always been rather bad at providing answers for ‘personal troubles’ – there are always far too many unknowns; I will speak on public issues, though even there I don’t share his ‘activist’ orientation, for the same reason. (I know I go on about one public issue ad nauseam in ‘Views’, LOL, though not with the detachment that behooves a sociologist and historian; but then, it’s easy to speak out against barbarism...)
I know where Mills (1916-1962) would stand on the gun issue - pretty well where I also find myself, for what it's worth. I wonder where he would stand on the 'public issue' of the spreading barbarism...
posted by
Nautikos
on December 16, 2012 at 7:49 AM
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Apologize??? Your post was saying so much of what many of us feel, and very well done to boot. If it's therapy for you at the same time, that's a bonus! I'm pretty sure everyone and not only in the Blogit community, could think of little else that day anyway.
posted by
adnohr
on December 16, 2012 at 3:23 AM
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