I got my mother a tote bag for Mothers’ Day last year that says “I have two needles. You have two eyes. Don’t mess with a person that knits.” She uses it to carry her knitting on the train and it makes me so happy.

I had a shittastic week at work thanks to men. I wish they were releasing Season 2 today so I could pour myself some hard liquor and watch her kick ass.

Clearly the deputy was not ‘adept’ with guns. He should have passed off his pistol to the 2nd period social studies teacher.

Here’s one more: The sheriff’s deputy on duty at Parkland apparently lost his nerve during the shooting and never tried to engage the shooter.

Nancy Kerrigan knows!

I watched the Fresh off the Boat about this last week and learned of a new conspiracy about this involving her sister.

God dammit.....here’s your star you beautiful bastard.....

Not enough stars.

Thoughts and prayers

I can’t be the only one who read “Rhode Island’s youngest state senator” in the headline, glanced down to see a video freeze-frame of Paul DiMaio, and wondered “that’s Rhode Island’s youngest senator?”

I’m a high school teacher. On Thursday we had a scheduled lock-down drill. After this shooting, I took it upon myself to explain to my kids how very real and necessary the lock-down drills are to keeping them safe. I had to coach them on the safest places in the classroom to hide so they wouldn’t be seen from the…

It absolutely blows my mind that Republicans can balance the cognitive dissonance of “look, an angry teenager is always just going to be able to somehow source a semi-automatic rifle, even if they’re illegal and rare and strictly controlled and almost impossible to get ammunition for, never mind that literally no…

Just when you think Trump can’t get lower, he finds a way.

“I got you a new gift, a divorce!”

The kid and I JUST saw it. It is an absolutely beautiful film. It really has an extremely nuanced storyline while also delivering on superhero spectacle.

Hey fuck face, Indiana is a 30 minute drive to Chicago, with lax gun laws. People go there, buy guns, and bring them to chicago. This is not hard to understand.