Massacre in Blacksburg

I don't know what to say, except that the extended Virginia Tech family is in everyone's thoughts and prayers tonight. The mood in DC today was eerie, because so many people in the area have some kind of connection to Virginia Tech. As word of the shooting spread this morning, everyone at my temp job was prefacing the news with "Do you have any friends or family at Virginia Tech?"

I don't, but I have several friends who went there, and I want them to know that we are thinking about them and all of their friends. This photo of a vigil in Blacksburg, from Andrew Sullivan's blog (by Win McNamee/Getty Images), is one of the only comforting things I've seen all day.