Iran not involved in the bombing. Not a problem. Iraq was not involved in 9/11 either.

Erik Rush, guest commentator on Fox, who also wrote a comment piece titled `Yes, Islam is an enemy' tweeted

"@erikrush Everybody do the National Security Ankle Grab! Let's bring more Saudis in without screening them! C'mon! #bostonmarathon."

Then when he was asked by another Twitter user whether he was blaming Muslims for the attack, Mr Rush responded: "Yes, they're evil. Let's kill them all."

Of course, when his comments provoked fierce reactions, he claimed he was being sarcastic.

I thought about what happened in Newtown - or in the theatre in Colorado - and all the other shootings that have happened since 9/11. People certainly were terrorized and killed.

Watching those films on television news, it did cross my mind that people in Iraq and Afghanistan have to contend with this on a daily basis - much of it caused by our interventions.

I also must say that I really can't stand it when the newspeople, or some political figures, try to spin these disasters - shootings and the like - into a feel-good story - about how these things bring the American people together. Please. I don't disparage the work and courage of people on the scene coming to the rescue of others. I praise it. But I don't need it to be spun by the self-serving networks into a story about American goodness and how we are family. Generally, we treat certain less fortunate members of our "family" like so much trash.

There are ways that we can be brought together other than in response to an attack or a tragedy. Something positive.

That being said, wouldn't Pavlov be proud today that the media is responding as the stimulus of public explosions has conditioned them to?  

Lordy.

No one knows what this was, who was behind it, or if there is some larger meaning, and yet...it's not stopping the media from speculating, pulling the emotional triggers of 9/11 and firing away at their local and national audiences.  

Just go about your business, but...BE AFRAID!!!  BE ALERT!!!  Bad day to have brown skin and look even vaguely Middle Eastern, because even though we have no idea who's responsible, well...[fill in this area with whatever knee-jerk, xenophobic stereotypical bias comes to mind].

Anyone besides me wondering if somewhere in an undisclosed location, some authoritarian who's had an erection over this for more than four hours is dreaming up the next assault on our freedom?  Time to make the Patriot Act even more...patriotic?  Survey, surveil, wiretap, photograph, film, read e-mails, open mail...how else will we ever know who wants to kill us???

Know who wants to kill us?  People like the kid who shot up Sandy Hook.  People like the guy who shot up the movie theatre, the kid who went on a rampage at Virginia Tech.  We're going to turn the full force of the US government against anything that remotely resembles terrorism - spy on people, read their e-mails, put cameras on every street corner, tap their phones - but if there are guns involved?  All of a sudden, privacy is paramount - don't anyone dare suggest background checks, no, that would be a sin against Charlton Heston, Wayne LaPierre and the 2nd Amendment.  The Amendment that is, of all the Amendments, so sacrosanct that we shouldn't even consider allowing the government to regulate anything remotely connected to it.

Worry about bombs in trashcans?  Sure, I can get all nervous and freaked out over that.  But I imagine I have more to fear from the idiot with a gun who only thinks owing one makes him smarter.  

Lewis Carroll would be impressed by how much deeper the rabbit hole is than even he imagined, and how much more insane things are there.

This is all going to play very well with the Let's-Go-To-War-With-North-Korea crowd, don't you think?  

But one wishes that the empathy for victims and outrage over the ending of innocent human life that instantly arises when the US is targeted by this sort of violence would at least translate into similar concern when the US is perpetrating it, as it so often does (far, far more often than it is targeted by such violence).

Regardless of your views of justification and intent: whatever rage you're feeling toward the perpetrator of this Boston attack, that's the rage in sustained form that people across the world feel toward the US for killing innocent people in their countries. Whatever sadness you feel for yesterday's victims, the same level of sadness is warranted for the innocent people whose lives are ended by American bombs. However profound a loss you recognize the parents and family members of these victims to have suffered, that's the same loss experienced by victims of US violence. It's natural that it won't be felt as intensely when the victims are far away and mostly invisible, but applying these reactions to those acts of US aggression would go a long way toward better understanding what they are and the outcomes they generate.

I also can't help thinking that, while there is so much compassion and angst and concern, and so much effort to soothe and heal when it's a tornado or a bomb or a shooting or a hurricane, where is all of that for the millions who still don't have jobs, have little access to health care, whose already-meager quality of life may get worse with threatened cuts to the safety net?  Is the chronic nature of the problem such that it's just a fact of life that we've accepted?

Patriots Day in Boston is a treasured date. Half a million people come to watch the marathon. There are parties all along the route. The final stretch, on Boylston, is a cacophony of joy. It represents this city's confluence of youth and tradition, its crazy obsession with fitness, its elation at the start of spring.

For runners from around the world, the marathon is a life goal. They train not for months, but years, to meet the daunting qualifying times. Crossing that small strip of pavement is an accomplishment that's as hard to explain as the attack that bloodied it is impossible to understand.

This time, some of the last runners to cross kept going, to the hospitals to give blood. Doctors and nurses among them volunteered to help.

Read more: Boston Marathon Bombings - I Was There - Esquire

I was following their progress online and was curious when they seemed to stay in the same place for about 20 minutes.  I called my son-in-law who'd received a call from her.  He said I'd better turn on the TV.

They were safe, but with the Green Line shut down they were stranded as were thousands of others.   Standing around, scantily clad for 50 degree weather, many runners suffered and some became ill. Buses arrived after a considerable time and transported runners to the Common. They finally got back to their hotel, in Danvers, just past 9 PM.

My daughter was ill during the last 10 miles and had slowed her pace considerably.  Had she not been ill they probably would have finished about the time of the explosions.

Likely the work of the Aryan Brotherhood that murdered the prosecutor and his wife a short while ago.

The central point is that there is still no clear explanation of who was behind the attack or why it happened. It now appears clear that despite yesterday's reports there were no additional explosive devices besides the two that exploded near the finish line at the marathon, the two we knew about from the first moment. The initial report of a further bombing at JFK Library seems to have been ruled out definitively as have various reports of other unexploded devices found in the vicinity of the attack. link

Her father, William A. Campbell Jr., told Yahoo News he's in shock that his daughter was killed.

"My daughter was the most lovable girl. She helped everybody, and I'm just so shocked right now. We're just devastated," he said. "She was a wonderful, wonderful girl. Always willing to lend a hand."

Campbell was at the finish line with a friend to cheer on her boyfriend, who was running the race. William Campbell said he doesn't know if her boyfriend finished the race before the bombs went off.

More than 170 people were wounded--17 of them critically--and three were killed in the attacks.

Krystle Campbell's grandmother told the Boston Globe that her granddaughter had recently been living with her in Somerville to help her through an illness.

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