Working for a land conservation nonprofit and partnering with the land management agencies, you would not believe the complaints people have. My favorite was the gentleman who repeatedly called, demanding to know what our plan was to stop the earthquakes in the region.

Watermelon gum. Apparently bears will walk miles to eat watermelon gum.

- Dude who one day walked out of a bathroom* in Sequioa National Park and into a bear’s ass who was licking the watermelon gum that someone had stuck under the fountain spigot.

*Yes, thank god it was a bathroom since I crapped my pants.

And the…

OMG! I had a friend who worked for the park service. She said she was talking about how glaciers were formed millions of years ago and some dude got all “well, if you BELIEVE in millions of years”! Like the entire concept of “a million years” was 100% foreign to this dummy’s brain. We had a good chuckle over that one.…

I work as a camp counselor and we have active shooter training, because in our America, it is 100% possible for a disgruntled local, someone discharged from the army base in the next county, some crazed hunter, etc. to waltz into a little YMCA summer camp and start picking off kids and and the young adults caring for…

I worked in Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada for two summers and atleast once a week some tourist would demand to know where the bears were, despite reminding them that a bear sighting could be deadly. If you want to see a bear go to the god damn zoo.

My husband and I went to Yellowstone on our honeymoon and we overheard a dad confidently tell his children that the buffalo hanging out around the hot springs were “probably robots like at Disneyland to trick all the other tourists.” I’m still not sure if that was DadHumor or if he seriously believed that.

shouldn’t “confuse my beliefs(!) with scientific fact”

Coincidentally, someone left the exact same note on the back of a bar napkin by the endzone of Soldier Field.

I had an internship at a zoo in undergrad, and there was a note left about me one time. I explained that horseshoe crabs were an ancient species and you could see their relatives, the trilobites, in fossils from the Cambrian period. The dad got all huffy and asked how I knew it was “millions of years”, and I responded…

Okay, maybe I’m just an overly rational voice of common sense here, BUT...

I think about this all the time. My boyfriend and I are not aligned in a lot of our political beliefs, guns being one of them. I have a pretty hard stance in which I’d like to see guns super regulated and virtually unavailable except in very specific, very select circumstances. He is more of a gunz 4 everyone type.…

Yeah, I mean, if someone’s not willing to wait a week or so for a background check to go through because they need that gun NOW NOW NOW... idk about you but that’s a pretty big red flag to me that person probably shouldn’t have one.

It’s like the new 15 minutes. I was thinking this a few minutes ago, I’m from the area where it happened, and it’s such a sweet sleepy little place. I was thinking, this shock and sadness I feel, everyone is going to get a go at feeling it if things don’t change. It’s just SW Virginia’s turn right now.

I mean, I bet Alison Parker read Jezebel. She was young and media-literate. She might well have been one of us. The next people who will die could be you and me. Or a person reading this right now. Sitting at their desk, feeling upset about this incident and not knowing that their name will be in the mouths of…

And all because gun nuts will say “laws won’t stop criminals from getting guns”, completely ignoring the fact that these types of shootings usually are perpetrated by people who acquired their weapons legally due to the stupid laxity of our gun laws, and people are stupid enough to fall for that same old stinky red…

that’s what scares me the most, is that these aren’t even like.. famous people, or radical people, or anything like that.

Seriously, if the slaughter of little kids in their elementary school can’t force change (and in fact creates a cry for “MORE GUNS! MORE GUNS!”) than nothing will.

LIVE! Killed LIVE and on the air! We now have people being MURDERED on live TV. We have CHILDREN being murdered in their classrooms. Nothing gets done. We, as a country, through our inaction have said this is A-OKAY. Just another day in the beautiful United States! Let freedom ring and god bless America and her guns!

It is seriously getting more yellow every day.

I have a banner hanging outside my house that reads “3 GLASSES OF WINE & IN BED BY 8:30.”