Timing is everything, and the teen who shot up Red Lake High School in Redby, Minnesota, has lousy timing.
On almost any other day, a kid who left ten dead and fourteen wounded would have been the story. FOX and CNN would be offering wall-to-wall coverage. The C-SPAN helicopter would be flying over the reservation. Columbine students from yesteryear would be on every network in the role of expert advisors, letting us know what the students of Red Lake and the citizens of Redby are experiencing.
Instead, he picked a day to lose it when Terri Watch was the only show anyone cared about. Yeah, he got the lead a few times on the newscasts, but it was Terri Schiavo the networks wanted to rush back to. After all, ten dead people is kind of tragic but one not-dead woman is heart wrenching.
Word of advice to North Korea: hold off a while if you have any plans to toss around one of your nukes in the near future. It'll be another one to three weeks before the United States can be bothered to attend to such frippery.
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