I was reading this dude's weblog, about this dude's rampage.

Now granted, Hbee loves him some psychotic right wing talk radio, but still and all, it's impressive that the local news is about a sad, fucked up guy.  But, the national and certainly blogger flavor is a bit more spicy.

Who the fuck knows what was going on in the guys head?  Maybe he was on a mini paranoic schizophrenia-induced jihad.  I read an article once about how the actual, organized, having their actual terrorist shit scarily together, real terrorists sometimes hook the backpacks of death onto the aged and infirm, the sick and the crazy to be erzatz suicide bombers.  All very Machiavellian and all, using who and what you can for the greater glory, and the backpackers aren't so much soldiers for the cause as ready to die.

But, you know what?   Back in the day, if I was an asshole punk from Southie or Dorchester who bought a gun on account of the world treating the Irish like shit on the bottom of their shoes, I wouldn't be a warrior for the IRA.  I'd be a fucked up psycho with an ax to grind and a misguided sense of purpose.

I guess what I'm saying is, I ain't buying the terrorism angle.  Not a bit.  He's a loser from Fremont whose family was hoping marriage and manhood and maybe a dose of the old country would snap him out of his funk.  I'm willing to bet it.

Better yet, I've been in SF more than once or twice now.  It's a big, fucking, honking huge city.  It's NYC, Paris, London big.  Major, urban, diverse.  For the rumors he was heading toward some kind of Jewish Community Center or Jewish neighborhood, go to Google maps and look it up.

I've been on Bush St., California, Fillmore.  In fact, the recruiting agency (where folks had more British accents than, say, Yiddish) that led me to my employ is on Bush.  Look at the shots from the news cameras and look it up again.  It's the city, a big freaking city.

I mean, he may has well have been trying to run down Buddhists, since there are more of that temple flavor in that locality.  (Google maps are our friend.)  Probably a lot of Thai and noodle places, too, like many SF 'hoods.  Ain't no one claiming he wants to free Tibet.

Besides, didn't we win the war, hearts and minds in Afghanistan?