A Stitch in Haste

Which is worst?

1. Doctor Phil blaming it on violent video games? (Via Fark.)

2. Ken Ham blaming it on teaching evolution in the classroom and atheism generally? (Via Respectful Insolence.)

3. John Derbyshire and Nathanael Blake blaming it on the male student wimps who didn't "rush" the killer? (Via PoliBlog.)

Which is the Worst?

• Doctor Phil
• Ken Ham
• Derbyshire/Blake

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(Write-in nominations welcome in the comments, but please provide links.)

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MAJOR UPDATE: All your votes are belong to her --

[ANDERSON] COOPER: Dr. Morrison, what do you make -- you know, in his writings, there seemed to be sort of an obsession with the debauchery, the hedonism of other people. He seemed to need to prove his masculinity a lot.

MORRISON: Well, one of the early theories about paranoia is that it's a defense against the person's own urges of homosexuality. And that's a very old theory.

But, if you look at the writings he had in both of his plays, they are focused on things occurring that would generally happen only in a same-sex-type relationship. But they're very threatening. And his response to those threats is to kill.

COOPER: But he seemed to be attracted to women.

MORRISON: Well, but, you know, it's like anything else. If you are trying to prove yourself, and trying to show that you're the complete opposite of what you might be afraid of, you will definitely stalk. You will definitely look into a woman's eyes and see promiscuity, which is one of the things he talked about.

But the focus on the sexuality of females was only masking what appears to have been a tremendous fear that he was not truly attracted to females.

As background, Helen Morrison is the soccer-mom-turned-psychiatrist who is best known for her own deeply mentally disturbed act of keeping serial killer John Wayne Gacy's brain in her basement. A sick woman indeed. She also insists, contrary to all available evidence, that there is a "serial killer gene" -- probably located a few chromosomes down from the "attention whore gene." (Morrison used to insist that serial killers were strictly nonsexual "psychological infants." But that doesn't get you on Anderson Cooper the way "Cho must have been gay" does.)

To review and summarize the (revised) Helen Morrison school of serial killing:

1. If they show evidence of homosexuality, then blame it on the homosexuality.

2. If they show no evidence of homosexuality, then blame it on being in the closet.

Like I said, a sick woman indeed.

(Via Good As You; see also The Gist.)