Website news: "Lawmune's Netspace" is back online

As of August 8th, 2026, Lawmune's Netspace (my personal website started in 1998) is back online, now at the following address: https://www.lawmune.net . Redirects are in progress, but please update your links and bookmarks. Thanks! The original domain, cjas.org , is still down. I can't speak yet on whether the other sites/pages hosted there will find new homes.

Website news: cjas.org is down

My webpages at cjas.org are down indefinitely but not permanently. I will find them a new home. This includes thought experiments lain and my pages on Daicon, To-Y, Otaku Studies, etc. Thank you for your patience. I still post (infrequently) on x.com : https://x.com/Lawmune

Remembering the Grover Cleveland Elementary School Shooting (San Diego, CA - January, 1979)

(Originally posted on Facebook - April 20th, 2019)

(Posted here on April 28th, 2019, one day after the Poway Synagogue Shooting)

It’s been 20 years since Columbine. Watching it unfold on television in 1999 (while I was a grad student studying biology) left a deep impact on my psyche.

It was a big reason I decided to shift the direction of my academic studies. As I wrote in my doctoral dissertation (in the field of Science and Technology Studies):

While I have been interested in subcultures since my youth, I did not decide to make them a primary focus of my studies until April 20th, 1999, the day of the Columbine High School massacre.

Yesterday, as I was driving, a song on one of my Spotify playlists started to play: “I Don’t Like Mondays” by The Boomtown Rats. That song, of course, references the Cleveland Elementary School shooting that took place in San Diego in 1979, one of the first high profile mass school shootings perpetrated by a minor. Two adults were killed; one policeman and 8 children were injured.

For years, ever since moving to San Diego, I’ve wanted to visit the school and see the memorial plaque.

Today, reminded by the song and the coverage of Columbine, I decided to make the trip to the San Carlos neighborhood of San Diego.

In recent years, the school site has been replaced by a housing development. The original monument was moved to a new location nearby. It’s now on the corner of the development, at the intersection of Lake Atlin Avenue and Lake Angela Drive.

Please take a moment to remember the two men whose lives were tragically lost as they tried to protect the students under their care: Principal Burton Wragg and Head Custodian Michael Suchar.

Robert Anton Wilson on Usenet (1995-2003)

According to trusted Robert Anton Wilson scholars (see "Robert Anton Wilson's personal tech ecosystem"), he used to post on Usenet using the pseudonym "Mark Chan". Shared in commemoration of Robert Anton Wilson Day, here is a list of links pointing to the various newsgroups he posted to. The linked pages contain direct links to his posts (sorted by year and month).

Due to Google Groups having a less than ideal search interface (which seems to change every few years), there may be additional unlisted groups where RAW posted. If you happen to find more, please let me know in the comments section.

I hope you enjoy reading RAW's unfiltered and unedited Usenet posts as much I did*. He must have had a certain amount of trickster-ish fun posting under an assumed name, especially in discussion threads about his own work. His four primary haunts are listed in bold.

newsgroup name	number of posts
alt.atheism	7
alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk	1
alt.alien.research	2
alt.antichristnet	3
alt.bible	1
alt.blasphemy	2
alt.chaos	3
alt.conspiracy	97
alt.conspiracy.jfk	1
alt.cult-movies	4
alt.discordia	41
alt.discordia.scc	2
alt.edgar	1
alt.fan.art-bell	3
alt.fan.howard-stern	1
alt.fan.madonna	1
alt.fan.rawilson	55
alt.feminazis	1
alt.feminism	1
alt.hemp.politics	1
alt.humor	1
alt.illuminati	5
alt.law-enforcement	1
alt.law-enforcement.interpol	1
alt.meaningless.shit	1
alt.memetics	2
alt.movies	1
alt.non.sequitur	2
alt.politics	6
alt.politics.bush	6
alt.politics.clinton	1
alt.politics.libertarian	2
alt.revisionism	1
alt.slack	50
alt.society.neutopia	3
alt.tasteless.jokes	1
alt.tv.x-files	1
can.politics	1
comp.ai.philosophy	1
cruzio.general	2
misc.survivalism	1
rec.pets.dogs.misc	1
sci.econ	2
sci.skeptic	3
soc.culture.asian.american	1
soc.culture.jewish	1
soc.men	1
talk.atheism	1
talk.politics.misc	5

* At the time of this writing, I haven't read every post. The views contained therein do not necessarily reflect the views of the author (me) ... but you never know.