Extending the logic in this blogs statements concerning the VT shootings, I'd have guessed that the car was to blame.

Let me get this straight...the coach of the Rutgers womens' basketball team demands the respect that is due to the players, and that is "parading them as victims"?

I tell you what...how about next time an underdog mens' basketball team achieves a stunning victory we can get a shock jock to call them a bunch of hardcore n*****s and see how Wapshott interprets that. Perhaps he will tell them to be mature and quit acting so uppity.

I think we should also blame the basketball team for Corzine's driver, a state trooper, going 91 MPH in a 65 zone and for Corzine not wearing his seatbelt, despite the state's law on the subject. Perhaps we can blame them for global warming and the war in Iraq while we're at it. Or perhaps, just perhaps, we can give the driver a speeding ticket and Corzine a ticket for failure to wear his seatbelt. Why is no one suggesting enforcing NJ state laws on the people who should follow them most?

The Liberal Governor, like former Governor Davis, thought that he was above the law and could drive 90mph. He also broke the law by not wearing seat belts. Too many liberals have an elitist's view.

Thank goodness that the disease of elitism is completely absent from the ranks of conservatives, particularly those in elected office.

Susan Thomas,

Have you indeed noticed a high correlation between liberalism and speeding or between conservativism and wearing seat belts??!!?

Please provide the link to that data.

See, I'm a liberal. I don't drive 90 MPH. I also have been wearing a seat belt when in vehicles for 3 years longer than it has been a law in New York.

I also find that it's the neocons with the elitist view. Remember, liberals are trying to increase programs for people less fortunate than themselves. It's the neocons that want people to die for lack of health care, want to kill social security, provide education only for the wealthy (yes, that is what school vouchers are intended to do, kill public schools and provide good education only to people that can afford the additional money to go to private, preferably parochial, schools.), etc.

So, perhaps Corzine's driver exceeding the speed limit and Corzine not wearing his seat belt should just be viewed as people, rather than parties, doing something wrong. Otherwise, you may open yourself up to some really harsh criticism on the complete lack of morality of the Republican Party platform, a platform so bad that even most Republicans disagree with large swaths of it.

Na na na na naaa na!

I think you're really off course on this one. I don't think it has anything to do with the women's basketball team, rather it has to do with state power and cockiness on the road. I don't see how even being sympathatic to their situation it is at all reasonable to be traveling 91 mph with flashers on to get other drivers out of their way because you know what it wasn't an emergency, they weren't under attack, and unless it is a dire emergency they should obey they laws they themselves put forth, otherwise they might just cause a really bad accident.