Casual Cruelty

Somehow, we have written ourselves into the age of the one-liner, where it's terribly important to be terribly funny.

A former Rutgers University student convicted on Friday in the webcam spying episode that ended in his gay roommate's suicide could be headed off to prison in a case experts say stands as a tragic lesson for young people about casual cruelties and unintended consequences in the Internet age.

Somehow, we have written ourselves into the age of the one-liner, where it's terribly important to be terribly funny.

A former Rutgers University student convicted on Friday in the webcam spying episode that ended in his gay roommate's suicide could be headed off to prison in a case experts say stands as a tragic lesson for young people about casual cruelties and unintended consequences in the Internet age.