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we are familiar with the sanctimonious handwringing that accompanies any ill-conceived or malicious act performed by anyone with a taste for underground/alternative culture. recently, music and video games in particular have been singled out as especially and dangerously causal, and the air has filled with the tremulous yawps of the same establishment that once thought itself edgy for its surreptitious pleasure in elvis' pelvis.

this week, we learn that the man who decided to kill a few liberals by storming a church was a consumer of widely-read rightwing hate literature authored by well-known - and well-paid - media personalities, all of whom are for some bizarre reason considered "mainstream," and who are given immense channels through which to project their burning spite.

will they be taken to account? will they be brought before congress to answer for the social worth or intellectual merit of their speech and writing? will warning labels be slapped on their books, alerting the consumer to the moral hazards that lurk between those covers?

of course not.