Hide under a rock, DJ

The repercussions from last week’s suicide of the nurse who answered a prank telephone call at the hospital treating the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge were felt again yesterday with reports that the D.J.’s who made the call had received so many threats that they had been forced into hiding. Quoting an unnamed person at 2DayFM, the Australian radio station where the two D.J.’s work, The Daily Mail said that they were under the protection of security guards and “could be in hiding for months due to ongoing fears for their safety.” And while they're in hiding, they should probably write a diary. But a diary wouldn't have been much help yesterday morning (Eastern Standard Time) in Connecticut, where a gunman shot his mother, drove to a school where she volunteered, killed 26 people, and then turned the gun on himself. That man must have had some rather unconquerable demons in his life if he were to end it all like that.