I too find this discussion particularly funny. I personally find little offensive (although little in life is offensive if you always consider the source). My beef with the current national conversation is not that is vitriolic (a word I have heard far too often lately), but that it is painfully banal. I would appreciate a more vitriolic conversation if it were at least filled with creative and covert insults instead of trite analogies to Hitler (see Dave Barry “how to win and argument”). But to be fair to Barry, a good bit of booze would also probably improve the conversation as well. Who ever thinks the us vs. them attitude in the media caused this tragedy must also think Marilyn Manson killed those kids in columbine. Maybe it is our societies inability to express itself, devoid of F words, that has caused a nation of frustrated schizophrenics. Or maybe we should herald the guidance of plato for a boxing ring in the center of every town (although he was most certainly a fascist).
