Christina Green, the nine year old girl shot and killed yesterday was the granddaughter of baseball manager Dallas Green and the daughter of the Dodgers director of east coast scouting. For some reason, that seems odd to me, that she should have any attachment to celebrity.
Representative Gifford is apparently responding to stimulus, but those reports are a bit fuzzy.
Meet one of the heroes of the moment. Daniel Hernandez. The fact that he's hispanic in Arizona should not be surprising, the fact that commentators at the Yahoo story are decrying the "liberal media bias" for saying that a legitimate hero who is hispanic should be their lead story... Well, that's the America some people live in.
(UPDATE: And he's gay, too. Watch for heads to explode.)
Finally, there is a lot of talk about not jumping to conclusions. Loughner's clearly nuts, so we shouldn't politicize something that's the act of a madmen. As James Fallows points out, you shoot a politician, it's political.
Of course, there is this. And this from Andrew Sullivan.
And in that vein, what TBogg said.
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