Rutgers.
Tyler Clementi.
I feel I need to push through some somber commentary on a depressing happenstance before I get to my “WTF?” moment.

Dan Savage has a good series going on right now, the “It Gets Better” youtube feed of words of encouragement for tortured gay teenagers.  I wonder about “Bullying” becoming an issue defined to the issue of homosexual, but then look over and see that arguments against enacting any such laws in our schools fixate come from a Relgious Right that it infringes on their religiously defined bigotry, and “normalizes” homosexuals. 

So, I haven’t followed the story all that closely.  I don’t know what was in the hearts of the stupid roommate here, though we do see a callousness of the “Punked” ethos, and if I wanted to I could find from a  long line of chain email which broke dorm-mate’s privacy in the same way.

(ahem)

So, I heard an ABC News radio “top of the hour” news-cast yesterday evening.  Rutgers had a “Moment of Silence” before their football game yesterday.  With that, there was a soundbyte from a student in attendance, banal enough, even if I didn’t quite like the way she voiced it, as though she just thought it was neat to get on the air — “I think it’s great and totally appropriate to have a Moment of Silence.  This suicide has gripped us all here.”

And behind this soundbyte?
Someone let out a “WOOOO!!!!”

I don’t know if she was with her friends, out to enjoy the football game, and her friend was standing there, jacked up a bit by the radio interview.  But that is what it sounded like.

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