Starting shit with people out of boredom is every small town ever, regardless of social status. My best friend married and moved to a tiny farming town. The politics over which pub to go to are complex and intense. Especially given that the town only has one pub.

Having lived there, everyone knows EVERYTHING about EVERYONE and it is so suffocating! 

What are your feelings about the media not identifying the shooters of domestic terrorism? I personally thought it was great to finally see a leader (Prime Minister of New Zealand) refuse to name the shooter. She said her reasoning was to prevent him from gaining notoriety. But I believe it also helps reduce future…

There’s both a Marquess and Marchioness, and it’s actually pronounced “Chumley.”* I really don’t know if that makes it better or worse for you.

The wonders of living in a country where, even to this day, the parish is still the basic civil administrative unit and having been invaded by the Normans.

Was coming here to say the same thing!

Marchioness of Cholmondeley

I think that’s too kind. Regular bowel movements are signs of a healthy body.

Interestingly, when they said the second part of the podcast was going to be from Jon Ronson I thought they were going to revisit this piece (https://www.thisamericanlife.org/338/the-spokesman/act-one-0) which is also covered in his collection “Lost at Sea” about the victim of the London tube attacks accused of being…

It’s why they don’t publicize suicides on the Golden Gate Bridge, I believe. I had no idea so many people killed themselves on the bridge every year until that creepy documentary came out.

There’s been some research, but it’s still in the early stages. It seems impossible, but Columbine (what most people would point to as the ‘beginning’ of the mass shooting epidemic wasn’t that long ago in “study years,” plus it can be difficult to get federal funding (or any funding at all) for gun studies.

I listened to this episode, and I can’t imagine the hell it must be to have people constantly harassing you and questioning whether your child even existed. I swear I heard an episode of another podcast about two parents who lost their daughter in the Aurora shooting traveling to the sites of other mass shootings to…

I appreciate that the Parkland kids have started claiming their more recently-deceased classmates as “17+2,” which honors both the people who died on 2/14 as well as the people who held out for longer but ultimately succumbed to the damage done that day.

I also wonder if the suicides of the Parkland survivors might have triggered something for him. There is some evidence that suicide is “catching” (for lack of a better word), especially among people who share a common experience, like they do with gun violence. It seems relevant that this occurred right after two…

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

i’m not surprised that after almost a decade of death threats and harassment from insane conspiracy theorists that one of the targets of them decided to kill themselves. and those pieces of shit will use this to say that he was going to come out as a crisis actor and the government had him killed. alex jones should be…

That’s all ready to wear, which it sounds like they’re still making. What their cutting is the high end, $5k+ gowns and dresses that nobody really buys anyways. 

Elmo is an immature, red Grover. 

This is one of the reasons why I will never forgive Kevin Clash. Elmo was just a bit background puppet until the puppet was lireally thrown in Clash’s lap. Once Elmo hit the scene, it was over for the far superior Grover.

With Grover it is all about the capes. He and the Count could have had a cape-off like on the Capist!