Hey there, this is Phil. Welcome to this week's show. We actually recorded a

podcast on Thursday night that was supposed to play today being Tuesday and it

was a pretty good podcast. We talked about current events and had witty banter

and such but I finished editing it late Thursday night and then Friday morning

something happened in Connecticut at an elementary school that made it seem

less appropriate to air the show. We had just recorded, made the witty banter and

the the light conversation a little less fitting, I think. So I came into the

studio today to record a different show because the events of the week seem

that they need addressing and you know what I'm talking about the school

shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut that took the

lives of 26 and seven year olds and six adults, all women. And a lot of people,

I mean it's dominating the news, the news channels, the cable news networks have

already come up with their little theme music to go along with the tragedy and

their logos and their graphics packages for the tragedy. So the tragedy media

complex is up and running as usual. And a lot of people are immediately going to

say you know well here's the solution of course it's either it's gun control

or no it's making families stronger or no it's you know putting prayer back in

schools or no this is it it's better mental health assessment you know there's

a zillion people with a zillion different ideas about why this sort of thing

happens and and how to prevent it from happening and that's not really what I

wanted to talk about. I thought what was interesting was the contrast between

the events of last Thursday or last Friday morning in Connecticut and the

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