In ‘Grief is weird, it’s been a month’:

Good timing. I’m going to fulfill a promise I just made on a previous post.

I think about this every time I am dismissed from voir-dire for speaking Spanish (and there is a Latino defendant). What happened to a jury of one’s peers?

White Canadians poured money into a gofundme for Colten Boushie’s killer. They are probably getting ready to do the same for this one. White Canadians are just as racist as white Americans. Maybe this can be the beginning of ending pretense there is no racism in Canada, and actually working to eliminate racism.

These Parkview kids have really started something enormous.

Re-posting this again: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/12/16418524/us-gun-policy-nra

OMG its cake wrecks come to life. Between this and the Phoebe Waller-Bridge news, I could not be happier.

I love that all six of his daughters got together to tell him to stop talking. Nice teamwork!  

“Child of mine! You lectured and ridiculed a US senator? Good for you! Let me take you out for ice cream. Wait, do you smoke weed? Let me take you out for weed, and then probably ice cream.”

Fuck respecting adults! Jesus Christ, what the fuck is wrong with people?! That bullshit is always used to justify authoritarianism, ironically by the same people screaming about government overreach.

“human-sized Despicable Me minion Donald Trump Jr.”

DTJ is the spitting image of his father where he thinks everything he says and does is completely brilliant and hilarious, but he couldn’t be more fucking rock stupid if he was cloned out of a piece of shale.

As a federalist, I believe that power should be decentralized

My boys, baby and I skipped school today and saw the first showing at 10am. Theater was packed. My heart soared several times because, finally, I was watching a movie, not about pimps, hoes, slavery or drugs, but one were my 5 year olds cheered for heroes and booed villians that looked just like them. They saw a woman…

I’m not anti-dog! I love dogs!

In my experience, a sizable majority of dog owners.

I absolutely want to fight about this. While I’m not anti-dog, per se, I am anti many dog owners. I don’t own any dogs, don’t plan to ever own dogs and think it’s not too much to ask four things of dog owners:

Let’s not pretend that Amazon and other companies are allowing people to bring their dogs into work because they care about employee happiness. They are doing it because employees will work longer hours if they don’t have to go home to take care of their dogs.

We need something catchy instead of #thoughtsandprayers, like votes and calls. Don’t send a prayer, send a letter to your congressman, and threatened to never ever vote for them again unless they pass some comprehensive gun reform. Don’t go to church, take your church to the polls, and then have them register voters,…

For what it’s worth, I’ve worked for a variety of public officials over years, and when Sandy Hook happened, I told my then-boss that I could and would no longer write “thoughts and prayers” in public statements. I still can’t and don’t.