Interesting project

[M Holmes]

Patrick C. writes:

> (Especially after the Courier-Mail the main newspaper in Brisbane,
> Australia where I got the story today did an interview with an old gothic
> associate of mine who claimed that the recent school shootings were
> `nothing to do with being a goth.' I still can't believe that Marilyn
> Manson is geting so much hype for being so crap. The only good thing I will
> say about him is that he always appears intelligent in interviews, pity I
> can't say the same about his music.

The US, in its continuing state of denial concerning the whole concept of
personal responsibility has been again hilariously casting around for
inanimate objects and fictions to blame instead.  That old perennial,
guns, has been dragged from its coffin to loud yawns from all except the
perpetually indignant, into whose nest Charlton Heston has again poked
his stick.  People who ought to have more sense than Tipper Gore have
offerred music for ritual sacrifice to the gods of unblame.  Would be
film critics have pointed at The Matrix and fondly recalled the Jimmy
Stewart movies of their youth. That newcomer in the charts, The
Internet, has again proven its durability, this time with the famous How
To Make a Bomb pages, bringing the First Amendment to join the Second on
the list of Things To Burn after The Rapture. Speaking of which those
wacky lads, almost as if anticipating the postmortem Bonfire of
Inanities, added quazi-nazi philosophy into this heady mixture.

Meanwhile a number of school bullies may be asking themselves whether
the science geek they've been tormenting might have been paying a little
too much attention in chemistry class...

"Ring a ring o'roses
 A pocketful of posies
 Ban! Bang! Bang! Bang!
 They all fall down."

 --  "Hamilton's Ride" (Dunblane Gun Club)