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Blogs Liberty and Power Common Sense about Blacksburg

Apr 18, 2007

Common Sense about Blacksburg

by Liberty and Power

"The Blacksburg tragedy is not the sign of a sick society. Such evil is incurable, and we owe it to the victims not to inflate the problem by ascribing it to some greater malaise." So writes Simon Jenkins here in today’s Guardian.