christiancashman
Christian Cashman
christiancashman

You can’t get hate in your eye when your head’s in the sand.

Squirrel Hill in Pittsburgh is literally Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. His house stands three blocks from the synagogue where today’s shooting took place and that little diorama of his community represented the community where this occurred.

It “could” have, but it isn’t very likely. The chances that a heavyset white Islamic convert walked into a synagogue and yelled “All Jews must die” before killing people in Pittsburgh is highly improbable. Usually Islamic militants go with “Allah Akbar” and we don’t have a lot of Muslims let alone a lot of white ones

With all due respect, that’s horseshit. I would be the first to say there’s anti-semitism on the Left but it’s “You should agree with me on the Middle East or you’re a monster” not “I’m going to kill all Jews”.

usually Islamic extremists don’t yell “all jews must die” and we don’t really have that large of an islamic population here in Pittsburgh. What we do have is a lot of crazier than fuck white people in the surrounding counties.

This was a block from my house, this is absurd right now.

I wish people would enjoy their Friday and not be annoyed at an Ina Garten blog on Al Gore’s internet but HERE WE ARE.

But you’ve got to admit, it’s hard to argue with what he says.  I mean, y’know, on account of it being totally incoherent.

Considering that probably nobody got paid at all to do this and it was a project of passion, I’m not exactly sure what you were expecting.

Blue Lives Matter so quiet, you can hear a rat pissing on cotton

Where’s the blue lives matter crowd?

I occasionally get a bit dispirited about the end of the universe - I was listening to a podcast that discussed it recently, and it was mildly depressing:

I mean, they do take up a lot of space...

amazed this wasn’t the first reply:

Funnily, since Trump took office I’ve been taking solace in reading all the astronomy/astrophysics books I can find, because in the very very long run? We’ll all be returned to stardust and this bullshit today won’t matter anymore.

Cosmic terror is the worst. Because of a strange recurring dream I had as a child, where all the planets were too close to us, I used to fear that Mercury would come unhinged from its orbit and crash into Earth.

Everything about astrophysics terrifies adult me. Did you know, for example, that while theory would suggest that galaxies would naturally move apart from each other, ours (the Milky Way) and our nearest galaxy neighbor, Andromeda (and the only other one observed so far, I believe) actually seem to be moving closer

I was an avid astronomy nerd as a kid. The first book of decent length that I read was a National Geographic tome called “Our Universe”. And it was in this book I learned of the horrible, terrifying truth that there are black holes out there, trapping everything within its grasp, including light, and then crushing it