A personal remark

He was filled with the sour milk of human kindness.

Excerpt:

Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn.
The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn.
Where is the boy that looks after the sheep?
Up in the hayloft with Little Bo Peep.

-- from Slightly Salacious Mother Goose

NIU shooting

I think one of the things that makes me saddest is that this was not unthinkable. The smooth way the university responded is a result of their having prepared for and practiced for just such an event.