Month: May 2014
I love you, onion
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
NEWS IN BRIEF • Guns • Violence • News • ISSUE 50•21 • May 27, 2014
ISLA VISTA, CA—In the days following a violent rampage in southern California in which a lone attacker killed seven individuals, including himself, and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Tuesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,” said North Carolina resident Samuel Wipper, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations. “It’s a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep this guy from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what he really wanted.” At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past five years were referring to themselves and their situation as “helpless.”
Emplasis mine. Good quote about the NRA: “If the NRA ran the tobacco industry, the solution to lung cancer would be more cigarettes!”
Tired and shit.
I have nothing of note to say today. No witty remark, no word of the day, no funny cartoon. Just a typical day at work, and now I’m tired but can’t get to sleep because I’m too keyed up about the child coming out of bed every 30 minutes to an hour.
But why is the rhum, er, wine gone?
I want a new watch, but which one???
Please, collective consciousness, tell me which one you like the best, and why.
Ye great big Facebook cull
I realized recently that my Facebook feed is pissing me off – moreso than just the usual, base-level pissed-offedness that Facebook deserves. What I came to realize is that it’s full of stuff from people I never see, or interact with, or even have spoken to in more than 20 years in some cases. I had a look at my friend list. There were 175 people in there. It’s now down to 125 – which I still think has room for improvement but I have residual feelings that prevent me from being more slash-and-burn.
Best comeback ev4r!
Training the apprentice
Passing on The Knowledge to the next generation.