Two Days After Someone Blew Up the Marathon

I’m nearly as guilty of this as anyone, I suppose. But amidst all the panic and sadness and worry on Monday, I couldn’t help but notice that people were actually speaking for themselves on the Internet. Now, of course, it’s back to sharing something George Takei said or Stephen Colbert or whoever this Patton Oswalt is, or reposting a picture that came out of some grief labaratory somewhere. I won’t say it was a good thing, because it was born out of sorrow and fear. But…it doesn’t have to be.