Bombs in Boston

[E.H. Ruddock]

Chechnya, huh?

[Peeps]

Just woke up to this madness. My fiancée works right across the bridge from MIT...I am tying her to the bed this morning.

take it to the sex thread freak

[Green Habit]

Yikes, this looks scary.

[broken iris]

On one hand, this is very upsetting to me because I know people in Boston. It feels real that way, on a personal level. They say the suspect is hiding out in Waltham, where one of my best friends lives. That terrifies me. Also, innocent people, dead children, all horrible things.

On the other, I can't help thinking-- fuck, this is what people in Pakistan live with every day. More people died from US drone attacks there and in Yemen this week than at the Boston marathon. The US says it's killing dangerous militants but the casualties have been mostly civilians, including women and children. And there's no #PrayforPakistan trending or whatever. It's just really messed up.

I wouldn't be surprised if Obama's drone war policies were the motive and if there isn't going to be more of and more severe blowback in the US from that lunacy, but there is a difference in targeting terrorists and ending up with civilian casualties versus targeting exclusively civilians. Not to the families of those killed by drone strikes, but in the motives of the actors.

[Norah]

Eventually I'm going to have to go in to work. All the police activity right now is centered just a few blocks down the road from the station.

[@SkitchP]

Yikes, this looks scary.

Can we all just move to Idaho and hang out?

[Norah]

Yikes, this looks scary.

Can we all just move to Idaho and hang out?

Too close to where the unabomber hung out.

[@SkitchP]

Yikes, this looks scary.

Can we all just move to Idaho and hang out?

Too close to where the unabomber hung out.

I can deal with the Unabomber, he had targets i think. it wasn't this random bullshit crap that goes on now a days. He was a bomber with standards.

[Green Habit]

Yikes, this looks scary.

Can we all just move to Idaho and hang out?

Too close to where the unabomber hung out.

There are quite a few mountain ranges in the way--and Boise's the furthest away from Montana as far as its border states go.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

Eventually I'm going to have to go in to work. All the police activity right now is centered just a few blocks down the road from the station.

i just saw that they are asking people to stay inside, will that keep you from having to go to work?

[Norah]

Eventually I'm going to have to go in to work. All the police activity right now is centered just a few blocks down the road from the station.

i just saw that they are asking people to stay inside, will that keep you from having to go to work?

Nope.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

Eventually I'm going to have to go in to work. All the police activity right now is centered just a few blocks down the road from the station.

i just saw that they are asking people to stay inside, will that keep you from having to go to work?

Nope.

damn

[Simple Torture]

I had assigned five stories today for my students to read today. Two of them are centered on a guy who gets blown up by a grenade. Another is about a guy who gets blown up by a mortar shell. Yeah, I am making class optional today.

[Heathen]

Eventually I'm going to have to go in to work. All the police activity right now is centered just a few blocks down the road from the station.

i just saw that they are asking people to stay inside, will that keep you from having to go to work?

Nope.

Do not wear a grey hoodie. But seriously by the looks of it going out doesn't seem like a very good idea. MBTA and cabs are shut down. Governor asked everyone in Boston to stay in, doors locked.

[warehouse]

this shit is crazy, i couldnt imagine waking up to this. i hope everyone on here from this area is safe. even chud

[Norah]

Eventually I'm going to have to go in to work. All the police activity right now is centered just a few blocks down the road from the station.

i just saw that they are asking people to stay inside, will that keep you from having to go to work?

Nope.

Do not wear a grey hoodie. But seriously by the looks of it going out doesn't seem like a very good idea. MBTA and cabs are shut down. Governor asked everyone in Boston to stay in, doors locked.

My station is close to where this shit is centered but just to the east, and I'll be coming in from the east. If I was on the other side of everything I'd not be leaving my house.

[@SkitchP]

This is so stupid. CNN is actually interviewing a guy who basically identified himself as "I partied with him in High School."

[warehouse]

This is so stupid. CNN is actually interviewing a guy who basically identified himself as "I partied with him in High School."

someone from here should pretend to have partied w/ one of them in hs and get on tv

[@SkitchP]

and now they just did the "We don't know if he's watching, but IF he is, is there anything you want to say to him" thing.

[Norah]

Stream WBZ radio, they're doing a great job.