*Sigh*

I was going to go to bed, but I wanted to read more on the story of one kid stabbing another to death at Lincoln-Sudbury H.S., which is in a fairly well-off area not far from here.

What set me off was this quote from a parent:

"You wonder why nobody picked up any warning signs," Craig said of reports that Odgren sometimes wore a trench coat -- reminiscent of the Columbine High School killers -- and seemed fixated on weapons.

Damned trench coats.

Oh, and the killer lived in a different town and was at Lincoln-Sudbury for special education services.

Anyway . . .

Here is the original Boston Globe story.


Here is the Associated Press rewrite which focuses on the "connection" between Asperger's Syndrome and murder.

The lead in the rewrite:

BOSTON --Asperger syndrome has been used with some success by defendants like 16-year-old John Odgren, whose alleged fatal stabbing of a fellow student in a high school bathroom has shocked a suburban town.

Odgren is being held without bail, charged with first-degree murder in the death of James Alenson, a 15-year-old freshman who prosecutors said was stabbed at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School on Friday morning.

Odgren's attorney told a judge during arraignment Friday that his client has Asperger syndrome, a form of autism in which people can be quite intelligent but are unable to develop social skills.

"These kids with Asperger's, particularly in the teenage years, see themselves on the outside looking in, and they don't know why," said Milton Altschuler, a Houston psychiatrist who diagnosed New York real estate heir Robert Durst as having the syndrome.

rufinia is going to bed, but she wants me to register her disgust at the Asperger's thing.

A hockey song set . . .

As some of you know, one of the things that spending time with alethea_eastrid has done is to turn me into an even bigger geek than I used to be.

That explains why I am sitting here listenting to the folk music show "Midnight Special," which is based in Chicago abd rebroadcast all other the country, including WUMB

Anyway, a lot of times he plays topical sets -- songs about rivers, bees, "broken things," cats, etc.

I finally proposed my "Hockey Song" list, but he said he doesn't have a lot of the songs (I mail have to mail him sone). ;)

Anyway, the four bast hockey songs I know:

I am sitting here, as I do many Sunday mornings, listening to “The Midnight Special” on the internet, via WUMB,.org

I have been thinking about writing you and suggesting a “Hockey Set: for a long time, and since I should be working on other things, I thought I would take a minute and write.

Here are four solid songs you might build a set around. I am sure there are others, but these I really like,

Yes, they are are Canadian, but it’s hockey, ‘eh?

“Helmethead,” by Great Big Sea.

“The Good Old Hockey Game,” by Stompin’ Tom Connors (Corb Lund does it also).

“Me Like Hockey,” The Arrogant Worms

“Hit Somebody,” by Warren Zevon
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Feeling like I got a lot done . . . .

I had my usual 20+ item to-do list today, and at this point, I have 19 of the 25 items done, and I had dim sum with evilnicola

I also got a bunch of CDs burned onto my hard drive. That was a shiny bonus.

The main thing missing is the ubiquitous "Clean Room," that stays on every to-do list.

Full school day tomorrow, then exams start and run through Friday. Kids leave by noon Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Then Birka.

Yay!

Peer-student panel at Birka

The third in our series of discussions about peer-student relationships is scheduled for noon, this Saturday, in the Frost Room at Birka.

We're going to try it as a panel discussion this time.

I still have a couple slots on the panel. I am especially looking for a member of Chivalry. I have one squire, but I would be interested in another. And while not strictly a peeratge situation, I would be inetrested in a fencing don/dona.

Leave a message or e-mail me.

Thanks,

Liam