[Kip Lange]

When you're a news junkie, this IS your life. ;-) (sad, ain't it?)

And yeah, you're right. The stats show it. You have something like a 1/300 chance of being killed by someone OTHER THAN THE SNIPER in the DC area; you have a 1/517,000 (and that's being very...liberal...in the nice sense of the word :p) of being hit by the sniper. Why is this guy capturing our attention? Because he's good at psyching us out. Your average murder, the American understands. The cruel, strange, weird serial murders...we can't grasp them, and so we keep trying to. It makes no sense to us, and the mind recoils. We can at least understand the motives behind a guy who "goes postal" at work, or robs a bank, or knocks over a drugstore for Oxycontin...but this is pure, quantified *EVIL* of a nature we rarely encounter.

And that's why we're fascinated with it -- and it doesn't bother me much, because Americans should be constantly reminded that Evil *does exist", and not just as an abstract concept.

--KL

[Kip Lange]

Press conference soon? I hear that right on CNN?

[slimer]

When you're a news junkie, this IS your life. ;-) (sad, ain't it?)

Well, I guess this is it then. :>)