The fabulous journalist James Ridgeway has a really important piece in Mother Jones: “Mass Murderers and Women: What We’re Still Not Getting About Virginia Tech.”

And to counter all this week’s horrible awfulness, the Spring issue of Ms. magazine (on newsstands April 24) has an article by Nikki Ayanna Stewart in their new Women’s Studies Department on the uses of a women’s studies degree. It’s called “Transform the World.” Nikki, you bring us hope.