perspective, people ....

what happened in Montreal yesterday was, of course, terrible ... but i think the sensationalism of the whole thing is equally terrible. this guy wanted publicity, and that's what he's getting: his picture in every newspaper, his name repeated every minute on every news station, everyone around the water cooler going over yesterday's events again and again ...
and then i think of the tragedy occurring in Darfur ... the Sudanese government doesn't want this to be publicized so they can continue with their policy of ethnic cleansing ... and we capitulate! thousands are killed each and every day and it's page-ten news ...
of course, the difference is that what happened at Dawson 'could have happened to me' ... yes, well being born in Sudan could have happened to you too ...