Americans rushed to unite in horror and mourning in response to the masskillings in Blacksburg in a way we haven't seen since, perhaps, the attacks of9/11. Where I live, in Washington, D.C., residents are already sporting theirVirginia Tech ribbons and sweatshirts, the way so many Americans once donnedthose "I [heart] New York" caps and T-shirts. While media coverage hasbeen 24/7 and fast-paced, if not downright hysterical -- as is now the norm onall such American-gothic occasions from OJ's car chase on -- the framing andcontextualizing of the massacre/suicide at Virginia Tech has been narrow indeed.