[GilesB]

What a stupid thing to do.

You think because the kid's name is in the paper (and we all know how reliably accurate everything mentioned in the MSM is) that we have the "right" or "duty" to innundate him with innane questions from ignorant observers, informed only by the slanted reporting of the MSM?

What's wrong with you people?

[onehipdad]

Y'know, there used to be this thing called Personal Responsibility. I have always reminded my kids that when they point their fingers at someone or some thing else to blame, there's three fingers pointing back at them.

Your attempt here to rationalize away Rudulph's culpability by blaming the sloppy drunk white chick's purported influence on the soldier is a perfect example of how easily the perpetrator can be made out to be the victim. The fact that Rudulph is suspended from playing in the Civil War game could be a life-changing event for him, and whether that's good or bad is entirely up to him - and entirely dependent on whether he percieves himself to be the victim or the perpetrator of his own actions at that bar.