Students receive a lesson in grief
Children at Hoffman-Boston Elementary School in Arlington were given an early lesson in loss yesterday as teachers and parents helped them grieve in the aftermath of a school bus crash that killed a third-grader.Lilibeth Gomez, 9, was killed Monday when a garbage truck and the school bus she was riding collided.
the DC area has been buzzing about this child’s death. i agree that it’s terrible, especially for parents who can only wince at the thought of such a thing happening to a child of theirs. however, while i agree that this death is a tragedy, 
i was not in thick company feeling the same when the children of afghanistan and iraq had the shit kicked out of them by the US military — intentionally (through “justifiable” slop). many of these supposedly empathetic motherfuckers were busy feeling good about force. it was the right thing to do, even recently.
it is a world of lunatics, and i’m ashamed to be a part of it. isn’t it time for an adult skate?