Castor, Realm of Violent Dreams, Third Day of Childwinter, 525 M.E.: Yesterday, following the observations by Rebecca Solnit, I pointed out that the ISIS-affiliated man who drove his truck into a crowd in New Orleans on New Year's Eve, killing 15 and wounding more, fit the profile of a mass murderer. No, I'm not talking about his Islamic faith. I'm talking about the fact that he was a male, ex-military, and with a history of domestic and marital problems.
As if to prove the point, it's now been revealed that the person who blew up a Tesla truck in front of the Las Vegas Trump hotel - after killing himself, apparently - on New Year's Day was male, Green Beret, and had just had an argument with his girlfriend. He also had contacted several previous ex-girlfriends in the days before the bombing.
As Laurie Anderson once said, "Oh boy, right again."
For those of you keeping track at home (i.e., no one), my cumulative walking mileage for 2024 was 910 miles, or the distance from my Atlanta home to Foxborough, Massachusetts (home of the New England Patriots). From here to Minneapolis. A circle with a 910-mile radius centered here would intersect the northern part of the Yucatan peninsula, yet doesn't quite reach the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas.
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