Fort Hood

Good lord. According to MSNBC, there were at least three shooters. One of them was a major. This is a tragic and horrifying story on the face of it: Eleven killed and 31 wounded. But the first details suggest the story is going to get scarier and more discomfiting.

Update: CNN suggests one gunman, with two other soldiers detained as suspects.

Hypocrisy and symbolism

Remember when a lot of conservatives got their panties in a bunch when Time ran this cover, saying it paid insufficient respect to defenders of freedom?

Never mind:

Just in case you don’t get the reference:

Apparently all defenders of freedom are not created equal. And, apparently, it’s OK to cast Democrats in the role of those who commit massacres against their own people.

I’m not really outraged. I’d have to expect better from The Weekly Standard to feel outrage.