SHOOTINGS

as i so eloquently said at yesterday's editors meeting (and using the words of the inimitable hillary duff), "virginia tech is gonna be so over, like, yesterday." that's the news biz, baby. i blinked and missed the chance to blog something about this (unlike everyone i know on xanga), but it continues to disturb me how strongly the APA community believes that more and improved mental health services are the "solution" to avoiding tragedies like this. it only strengthens my belief in the how misguided the community can be and how, without fail, it finds the wrong culprit for our problems (abercrombie and fitch? rosie? cmon).

i found this beautifully written and well-informed new yorker piece. we will never solve the problem of mentally ill - we will probably never even make a dent into shrinking that population. shouldn't we focus our energy on something we CAN do something about?