Have some asbestos gloves handy if you’re reading the Boston Herald today. Here’s the lede of the lead editorial:
The whole narrative confirms that while the radical motivations of the Tsarnaev brothers — and perhaps, it remains to be seen, some of their training — came from international jihadist movements, the bombing was also the product of family dysfunction, youthful nihilism, and a pattern of low-level crimes escalating into a very major one.” —Boston Globe editorial May 3.
Dear Officer Krupke — of “West Side Story” fame — please call your office. Clearly these boys just have a social disease, so take ’em to a social worker.
It takes a lot for our competitors on Morrissey Boulevard to really get under our skin, but this one just sent us over the edge . . .
Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.
Yeah, how is it possible for some guy in his twenties to go to a country he wasn’t born in and kill the inhabitants? The Globe and the Herald both struggle to find answers.