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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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People who have read Columbine
Did the book change how you thought about the event? The killers? Their parents?
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
Re: People who have read Columbine
I bet her FUPA's name is Shane, like the gunslinger/drifter of literature.--HappyTummy
Ditto for me. I am sure I uttered more than once that it was obviously the parents' fault for raising such horrible boys at the time. I did feel bad for the parents and the inevitable backlash they would receive though. But the fact that you can give birth to a kid who is just inherently evil (the part about the parent who had a 5 year old girl who kept trying to flush her kitten down the toilet really creeped me out and will probably haunt me forever) and there's nothing you can do about it...in fact, almost anything you do will only make it worse...that's just freaky.
I wonder if, assuming there is some sort of afterlife, Eric feels the event was a success or failure.
And the crap journalism that was performed surrounding that day makes me lose even more faith in the news than I already had.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
The book also really scared me--about how they treated incidents like those (kids waiting without medical assistance or help for hours), about the lack of warning signs as to how troubled the boys really were, etc. The fact that the media had no idea what the hellll they were talking about also irritated me, as well as the cover-ups by the police department and the lack of follow-through when it came to Dylan and Eric's previous arrests/complaints against them.
Also, 3 days after I finished reading this, my husband, who's a middle school librarian, called me to tell me they were on lock down. Turns out a 6th grader (who was locked in his library) had brought a gun to school to shoot another boy who was talking about him.
"Once I got a bath bomb that, once exploded, filled the tub with confetti. Little sharp metallic pieces of confetti. The product description said nothing about confetti. Oh look, there's a tiny, sharp metallic blue star stabbing me in the labia. HOW RELAXING. " - NoisyPenguin