Ironic, after all this continuing stuff, that DC's gun control law stands to be gutted soon as a price for any representation. Maybe if Obama gets a chance to appoint some Supreme Court justices, the pendulum will start to swing the other way.

And I haven't ever been tempted to watch "Silence of the Lambs"--or any of the many other movies which glorify violence just to titillate the viewer. Jan says the UK attitude towards sex as opposed to violence is just about the opposite of the US view. And I tend to agree with her that the UK view is much healthier.

The American combination of the worship of the individual and our heavily pro-gun history, with an endorsement of solving problems by violence, has brought a lot of tragedy to the US--and the world.