Don't Just Do Something Sit There: Reflections on Grief & Sandy Hook
According to some reports, Adam Lanza, the deranged gunman who took the lives of twenty-seven people in Newtown CT last week, could not feel pain. The twenty-year old, who executed twenty first graders at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14th by spraying them with bullets fired from an assault rifle, was reportedly unable to feel physical pain , and could hold a lighter to his arm or ankle while the flesh burned without flinching. I don't know if these details have been confirmed. If they are, in fact, confirmed we have just another set of clues as to the possible twisted and demented motives for this horrific act. But I also see this as a sign and a symbol of something else... After the initial shock of the massacre at Sandy Hook began to wear off I started to see some predictable things pop up on my Facebook and Twitter feeds, and then even more predictably on the cable news programs as well. Some people immediatel...