Sheer insanity in Newark - From CNN: "In a city where gun violence has become an all too common part of daily life, these shootings were enough to chill even the most hardened residents: Four young friends shot execution-style in a schoolyard just days before they were to head to college."

Newark was a way-station for me when I lived in New Jersey: north on NJ Transit to New York or south to New Brunswick. It always had a rundown feel about it but I never imagined something like this. Head-shakingly sad.