Waking up every morning.

I never get tired of showing this print ad from the 1970’s.

Hey Kara, I just wanted to share this link in response to “the police have a dangerous job” argument. A grand total of 71 officers have died in 2015, with gunfire accounting for 26.7% of deaths. So yes, their jobs can be dangerous, but it seems like being a civilian is far more so.

How are this many people so new to the internet? And how did they end up on Kitchenette as their Orientation Day site?!

Exactly. And yet they’ll all come out saying that this is what the market claims their skills are worth.

In the 1980’s, the ratio was like 45. Now, as the article notes, it’s nearly 400. This is not an efficient allocation of capital.

Latest is that the bomb squad is “not comfortable” with the backpacks and that they’re going to attempt to disrupt whatever it is to make it safe. Awesome. Also, the gunman deployed pepper spray in the theater, which is what caused most of the injuries. The hatchet wound is superficial, nobody’s going to the hospital.…

So basically someone DIDN’T hurt anyone with a shoe bomb fourteen years ago and now we have to take off our shoes at the airport but literally tens of thousands of men, women, and children (including first graders in their school - a pile of bullet-riddled six-year-olds who still believed in Santa Claus) have been…

Unfortunately, gun nuts are going to use that gruesome detail to defend owning guns. “See? It’s not just guns that are killing people. Let’s focus on hatchet crimes!”

I’m in Nashville and following it as much as I can. The 1 person dead is the shooter himself. The police press conference just confirmed that the three people who were injured had minor injuries. Shooter is apparently a 51-year-old white male..

Started reading this, “Oh for godsakes, another shooting in movie theater/school/church” and then was actually shocked when I read

I’m sure they’ll find this suggestion shocking, but maybe they could get jobs? By my count, there are 7 legal adults living in the home, and the youngest Duggar child is 5, an age when most children can start going to kindergarten.

I’ve read the appeal cover to cover. Brady is of course a slick, dynamic protagonist, who’s resourceful and practical in a pinch, but I can’t help but think that he’s a little shallow. I mean, when I broke up with my girlfriend Sally this summer I didn’t throw my phone away or anything, I just deleted her contact.

Although it sounds like the result of some freaked-out parent being annoying, these sunburns are legitimately terrible.

That sounds like a 1 1/2 bottle of wine situation.

Hey now, Elden Henson is still working and was one of the best parts of Season 1 of Daredevil!

I ran an excellent idea for some seriously good civil disobedience past a PP acquaintance and she was not down with it. Seriously pissed actually. In this day and age everyone (looking at you PP) is always apologizing and backing down. I say stand up and give it right back. Hit them in their pocket and make sure they…

I am the mother of a child with Aspergers. Though he’s quite chill and polite now, he alternated between an angel and a fucking monster from the time he was born until he was four. Lest you think I’m exaggerating, he exasperated pretty much anyone who had to deal with him during one of his meltdowns.

Another “earwitness” phrase they’ll say is, “stop resisting” when they know they are in earshot, but not eyesight of witnesses. That justifies any acts they take to “subdue” the citizen.

Should be noted he took her out of view of the camera when he assaulted her. He knows what is in view on his dashcam.