An All-American Shooting
Early on Flag Day, 14 June 2017, the sound of the crack of a baseball bat was superseded in Alexandria, Virginia by the pop of bullets, as James Hodgkinson fired on a group of GOP lawmakers engaged in practice for their annual charity ball game with congressional Democrats.
Ixion was a king of ancient Greece, a son of the god Ares, and the first murderer in Greek myth. His story is a complicated one, involving many crimes and infractions of rules, especially of the social contract between hosts and guests. 