According to Bible Belt Blogger he received an odd email from the American Family Association of Michigan today.
“The suspected gunman in the Virginia Tech shooting rampage, Cho Seung-Hui, was a troubled 23-year-old senior from South Korea who investigators believe left an invective-filled note in his dorm room, sources say. The note included a rambling list of [...]

Dan Baril, a party strategist, resigned his post.
…I strongly advised against doing Central Nova and against doing what happened on Friday,” Baril told the Star shortly after submitting his resignation.
…”Everything they’re hearing (from political opponents) are things I advised them they were going to be facing after this and that it was going to hurt [...]

Blogher: lauriewrites
The Internet has indisputably changed the way people around the world can respond to events both large and small, and in the case of the murders at Virginia Tech, the voices are myriad and heartfelt. In the hours since the shootings at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 32 people have since been confirmed [...]

Update: 9:30 am VT media conference identifies shooter - 23 year old Cho Seung-Hui, a South Korean dorm student, english major and legal resident from Washington.
From Monsters and Critics:*
Taipei - The gunman who shot up a Virginia university and killed at least 33 people including himself was an Asian student who had quarrelled with his [...]

Eye witness accounts at the BBC.
State Police will be holding a news conference in an hour.
ABC News reports law enforcement says, “there was a single gunman, firing at least two 9mm semi-automatic pistols. They said he may have been wearing a bulletproof vest.”
Sky News:
At least 31 people are feared 33 people are dead in the worst ever gun [...]

A  US missionary in Romania came across a man who is suffering from a horrible skin condition about a month ago and let WFMU’s Beware of the Blog know about their attempt to treat him under difficult conditions.
Please do not click on the link if you are squeamish. When I was a kid I used [...]

Opposition leaders said they were determined to push ahead. Garry Kasparov, a former world chess champion who has become the most prominent figure in opposition factions loosely allied in the Other Russia coalition, called it “truly amazing” that 2,000 protesters would turn out in Moscow to face 9,000 police and interior ministry troops.
“It shows that [...]

June Callwood lost her battle with cancer this morning. She was a Canadian icon, champion of social justice, writer,  mother, and a recepient of the Order of Canada.
CBC