Well, even now in the early hours of yet another disastrous school shooting, with the fog of war still hovering over the Virginia Tech Campus, and the investigation only digging up more questions than answers, there is one thing that we can be sure of…
It's time to update the phrase "Going postal" to something more relevant to today's times. Gone are the days when disgruntled postal workers shot up their disgruntled employees and bosses in a last act of desperate, disgruntled rage. These days it's all about school shootings and thus, the phrase "going postal" needs to be asscanned.
Problem is, I haven't been able to come up with a suitable replacement. I thought of "Going schoolyard," but that implies that the rampage happened in grade school, which isn't always the case. I also thought of "Going homeroom" but again, that's a lower level of education thing, and quite silly. "Bringing home the homework" is too long, and far too silly. So I'm really drawing a blank here. Anyone got any suggestions?