Mildly annoying was the Nor’easter and the inconceivably tragic the VT shooting. The war, MS Vista, Hillary Clinton secretly working for the GOP…bad mojo haunts the Spring of ’07. Hunker down, make some warm food, put on some decent music, and stay safe.
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In 1996, book-wormish Brendon Malovrh tackled and subdued a random crazy woman who had begun a shooting spree in the middle of Penn State’s campus. The shooter had already killed one woman, Altoona native Melanie Spalla, wounded another and was reloading when the thin honors student Malovrh acted. From Wikipedia:
One of these witnesses, student Brendon Malovrh, is credited with wrestling the gun away from Robbins just after she loaded a second clip. In response, she pulled out a knife and attempted to stab Malovrh. When Malovrh dodged out of the way, Robbins accidentally stabbed herself in the thigh, afterwhich Malovrh used his belt to try to stop her bleeding. [She] was arrested on the scene.
I was in the building across the street soon to walk out of class. Brendon may have saved my life, but certainly saved many others. The tragedy in Blacksburg reminded me of him and how he looked on TV, somewhat nerdy and unassuming, surprised at his own moment of greatness. I never got to meet him personally, but if he Googles himself now he can read that I am grateful.
– Wikipedia on the Hetzel Union Building and the 1996 Shooting
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Site of the Day:Via MartyZ (again!), Will Ferrell has a ‘fro AND is funny.
Tomorrow, frivolity!