The following is an op-ed by Christopher Lane, Professor of English at Northwestern University, and the author most recently of Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness. He wrote it soon after the tragic NIU massacre of Feb. 2008 and...
Posted in Furious Seasons on December 11, 2008 12:01 AM
Esquire has apparently poked around the life, death and massacre shooting of Steven Kazmierczak, who killed five students, wounded 15 and then killed himself this past Feb. 14, and come out with a story that is being much summarized on...
Posted in Furious Seasons on July 10, 2008 12:05 AM
It's just been brought to my attention that Bill Lichtenstein has posted a response to the Slate.com piece earlier this week taking "The Infinite Mind" to task for not disclosing its Big Pharma funding as well as the ties to...
Posted in Furious Seasons on May 9, 2008 12:42 PM
Officials released the toxicology report for NIU shooter Steven Kazmierczak on Friday. His blood contained trace amounts of nicotine, Xanax and two cold medicines. There were no traces of an anti-depressant. None of that does much to prove or disprove...
Posted in Furious Seasons on March 17, 2008 08:38 AM
Information continues to come out around the Northern Illinois University massacre. Funerals have been held for the five victims, others continue to recover--and hopefully recover speedily. Meanwhile, we continue to get tidbits of information about what meds the shooter, Steven...
Posted in Furious Seasons on February 22, 2008 12:05 AM
The New York Times has a good article--very fair, very balanced--on the weird connection between anti-depressant use and misuse and violent acts in today's paper. The article quotes Sara Bostock, one of the ssristories.com people and a frequent commenter on...
Posted in Furious Seasons on February 19, 2008 12:05 AM
I asked readers the other day to submit contributions of whatever kind so that I could post them today while I busied myself with some outside writing. This one is by Jane Alexander, who authors the fabulous Bipolar Recovery website...
Posted in Furious Seasons on February 19, 2008 12:01 AM
There is now confirmation that the anti-depressant NIU shooter Steven Kazmierczak went off of a few weeks ago was Prozac, but it's not clear if he was on the original patented version made by Lilly or if he was on...
Posted in Furious Seasons on February 18, 2008 09:44 AM
CNN has an exclusive interview with the ex-girlfriend/roommate of the NIU shoot Here's her view of the shooter: "'He wasn't erratic. He wasn't delusional. He was Steve; he was normal,' Jessica Baty tearfully said in an exclusive interview Sunday. "Baty,...
Posted in Furious Seasons on February 17, 2008 03:59 PM
There's been a trickle of new information about Steven Kazmierczak, the shooter at Northern Illinois University who murdered five people before killing himself. Several people remain hospitalized, some of them could die, one may be blinded for life. I would...
Posted in Furious Seasons on February 16, 2008 12:53 PM
This news comes from the ABC affiliate in Chicago: Steven Kazmierczak, the shooter who killed five people plus himself at Northern Illinois University yesterday, had a mental health treatment history that went back to his teens. "Kazmierczak, 27, was treated...
Posted in Furious Seasons on February 15, 2008 07:01 PM
There are now two press reports that the shooter at Northern Illinois University, who killed five people plus himself and injured many others, had recently stopped taking medication of some kind and had become erratic. Authorities have not identified the...
Posted in Furious Seasons on February 15, 2008 10:39 AM