I just cannot seem to process this.

[magical thyme]

12. as horrible as this is, it is no more horrible than

the hundreds of innocent children killed by our drones. They just happen to be out of sight and overlooked by our media.

Let this be the beginning of movement toward light. As was written in another thread, for every $11 spent on special needs children, we spend something like 2 cents on gifted children, who are often misunderstood, bullied and abused even by their immediate families as well as classmates and some teachers.

We need more help for the mentally ill and emotionally unstable, as well as gun control

But mostly we need to change our culture of violence. Last night PBS ran a program on Bhutan, the last country in the world to open its doors to tv and the internet. Until 2000, their peaceful Buddhist country was untouched by western "culture." Within 10 years of allowing television and the internet into their country, they have become plagued with violence, drug use, unemployment and all the rest of our ills.