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September 06, 2004

Blogging Beslan

I tried blogging the horror at Beslan, tried to find some reason or lesson or policy, but could not. Steve Bowbrick is eloquent in describing why:

Is it possible (advisable, tolerable?) to blog Beslan? Is blogging so utterly and so necessarily trivial that even mentioning the diabolical slaughter in Russia is out of the question? I don't know. It certainly feels crass to me. Would silence be worse, though? Of course, even worrying about all this seems sickeningly solipsistic. I should just register my grief and my solidarity with the parents of Beslan and shut up.

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