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Apparently you have not been around long enough to understand that when a thread is started, any part of the story is liable to get a comment. If you must know, yes, I feel bad for the victims and their families. It is not for you or anyone else, however, to tell me how I'm supposed to feel or respond unless I cross I line of taste, standards or ethics, and that's what the mods are for. If I have commented inappropriately, be assured, there are people who've been here a lot longer than you who will come down hard and make sure I know that I screwed up. Until then, feel free to be sympathetic, but leave the rest of us to mark the news in the way in which it affects us the most.

I have a hard time believing if someone close to you were killed in that or any accident you wouldn't be so light hearted about it. I'm sure if you visited the sight where the accident occurred your perspective would change quickly. This situation derserves more sensitivity than the moderator normally allows. That's not too much to ask.

I have a hard time believing if someone close to you were killed in that or any accident you wouldn't be so light hearted about it. I'm sure if you visited the sight where the accident occurred your perspective would change quickly. This situation derserves more sensitivity than the moderator normally allows. That's not too much to ask.

I have had a number of people close to me killed in accidents. As a journalist, I have been to my share of accidents soon after they occurred and watched the aftermath. I have even had an article that I wrote used as a model for someone's suicide by automobile, so do not presume to know anyone else's heart or mind or in these matters, and most particularly, mine. It is deeply offensive to me that you presume some kind of emotional authority here, and now you are telling the mods how to do their job. Have you considered running for a political post -- as a Democrat?