The Times reports Bishop may have been working on a "herpes bomb" when she was denied tenure. Jay Fitzgerald concludes the real problem in this case was that:

[S]he was always surrounded by all these allegedly smart people who assumed she was crazy enough to do these things -- and yet she was allowed, even encouraged, to flitter away to her next weird encounter, a societal problem pawned off to the next chumps in line.

Hokay. Now the Globe reports she punched another woman in the head in a Peabody IHOP in 2002 because the woman got the last child seat in the restaurant.

Adam Reilly surveys reaction to the Herald's shocking revelation that Amy Bishop played Dungeons and Dragons as a teen, just like Mucko McDermott and, um, Curt Schilling. He awaits the Herald's discovery of a third murderous D&D player, because as any ink-stained wretch knows, it's not officially a trend without three examples.