People have to stop getting offended on other people’s behalf. I doubt the Obamas care that this family is being feted by Cosmo.

Even Charles Whitman, the Texas clock tower shooter, had been to several physicians, including a psychiatrist, up to a year before the shootings, and was on several prescriptions including valium. It turned out he had a brain tumor, but that was never conclusively linked to his actions.

Kip Kinkel was in treatment. He killed his parents and then went to Thurston High School (in Springfield Oregon in 1998) and killed 4 people and injured 25.

I agree, but I think there’s something extra on top of that that makes the USA culturally different. There’s something about the killers’ individual importance in this kind of action—a sense of being offended by wider society, or of personal failure being so absolutely unconscionable that it explodes in this vicious…

Only maybe true. Sure, people who commit attacks like these have obviously got something “wrong” with them that they think this is the best way to go about their day. But lots of them are “sane”, as in, they’re not suffering from any debilitating mental illness that “causes” their behaviour, they chose to do it. And…

How would you propose doing that? A neighbor calls the government and has him involuntarily committed? I am sure Republicans in Congress will jump right on it

The approach needs to be multi-faceted. Mental health help is great - but you have to be looking for it or at least have someone else trying to access it for you. Sounds like this guy and his mother were in a bit of a bubble and she didn’t see the problem. There could have been a state of the art mental facility next…

I kept thinking about the New Yorker’s profile of Lanza’s father while writing this: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/…

Except you’re wrong. It could have still happened even if he’d gotten help for his mental health issues that we don’t even know he actually had. It could have happened anyway because of the proliferation of guns in this country and the ease in which they’re obtained.

True.

What a fucking strange thing to complain about. Always has to be something.

I think she’s talking about you and your evil penis

That’s why you cut off your penis

Literally everyone is problematic in some way, shape or form.

I worked at a restaurant that required servers to give 50% of their tips to the kitchen staff. The reason that worked is because the restaurant elected to pay servers the same wage as kitchen staff, well above industry standard minimum wage for tipped staff. We got $12/hour plus half our tips, so it was very fair. If…

Yeah, when I worked in the kitchen of a restaurant, I got a share of the tip out. It wasn’t a lot, but it was a nice little bonus. But I’m also in Canada and we don’t have any of this tipped-minimum-wage bullshit here, so the servers weren’t starving themselves to tip us. We all had the same base minimum wage.

Carpenter is solid. She was so good in Dexter!

I am definitely not the only person that immediately googled Jennifer Carpenter... Deb from Dexter. Spot on.

Damn. She's have the obscenity aspect on lock.

Jennifer Carpenter should be optioning any and all scripts about Hope Solo’s life story immediately.