So let me get this straight...

Rene Gonzalez alleged graduate student in political science at Umass Amherst penned at editorial for the Daily Collegian calling the late Pat Tillman "an idiot" who "got what he deserved"?
And in Karl Rove's America, this is offensive exactly why?
Okay I jest, it is always churlish to speak ill of the dead...and if a graduate student at Umass Amherst hasn't learned that fact yet then said solon is probably too stupid to pound sand down a rat hole.
Nevertheless you have to love the predictable tidal wave of rightical chic indignation that this editorial generated....now the movement conservatives of America finally know how we feel when La Famiglia Arbusto persists in denigrating the military service and patriotism of Senator John Kerry.
Or they would know how it felt if they weren't all on a seriously demented power trip that'll end badly for us all unless the electorate does something about it this Fall.

Ah but let me wax nostalgic for a moment, you see I went to Umass Amherst back in the late 1980's...is the poli sci program still located in that rat's maze Thompson Hall?
I think the architect of that building got his start doing rodent memory experiments in the psych department or something.
I remember the Daily Collegian with particular sentimentality...a terrible rag edited by earnest and humorless undergrads...it was unintentionally funny on a daily basis.
I recall with intense nostalgia a weekly column by a born again christian asserting fervid prayer was enough to raise the dead to life...he had witnessed such miracles.
Oh it was a jolly time believe me.
Ah...Umass Amherst....nobody got along, no-one was paid what they were worth, and none can forget it.
:)