The Angry Drunk

While the media, online and oth­er­wise, unloads its col­lec­tive nut on the faces of the pub­lic with their wall-to-wall cov­er­age of the tragedy at Virgina Tech; I want to offer up a sim­ple ques­tion, with a sim­ple answer. The ques­tion is: Who is to blame for this? And the answer is: us. That’s right us. All of us, col­lec­tively and indi­vid­u­ally. We’re to blame every time we fail to see the men­tal health care cri­sis in this coun­try. We’re to blame every time we see the “weird” guy and say, “it’s not our prob­lem.” We’re to blame every time we bully a screwed up kid from another coun­try, or look the other way when that kid gets bul­lied. We’re to blame every time we don’t reach out to the friend­less loner. We’re to blame every time we feed the sick fuck­ing profit-hungry media in the coun­try with one more page view or Nielsen point. We’re to blame every time we care more about the drugs in that fucked up skank Anna Nicole Smith’s bloated corpse than the ram­pant over use of anti-depressants. We’re to blame every time the news reports that 33 inno­cent peo­ple were killed on a street in

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