I’ve found that it helps to use a war analogy. The problem is that the people who respond that way are still stuck in the paradigm of seeing the police as being on their side. So it’s hard for them to understand the situation. If you put the same situation in a different context- like a war- then replay the same…

That is not true. Limiting access to guns will affect those who have a short-term down turn by removing a method with a high perceived level of certainty and short planning stage, much like limiting access to lethal drugs does.

I see it’s true-you marinate in your own shitty beliefs long enough and they start to smell like the sunflowers of truth. Yes, if only someone had a gun at this event in ORLANDO (where I can guarantee you there were already several guns floating around) who could have saved this victim and neutralized her murderer…

You’re making excuses for them, Stop It! It doesn’t matter if he was insane, this specific type of crime where the man is allegedly insane and kills a woman happens way too often for you to try and paint it as some isolated incident. This is an issue with men and the entitlement they feel towards women, period.

I do see what you mean, these things often target a specific person. What makes this a gender issue is that it is almost exclusively men killing women, usually women they want to be/have been in a relationship with. These men may not realise that it is misogyny, but it is. Misogyny is feeling so absolutely entitled to…

“It is a universal thing and would happen with or without extensive gun control, though the numbers may go down somewhat.”

Oh fuck off and stop trying to defend men. Funny how these shooters who are “simply insane” just so happen to be male. Funny how these shooters who are just “simply insane” love going after, stalking and targeting females. How many times do you hear about some insane woman stalking and killing a man, huh? HOW MANY…

That’s easy to say when it’s not your family member dead in front of you. There’s a vast difference between utopia and being shot dead by a madman with a gun at a concert venue for no reason. There is a middle ground. And for what it’s worth, I would like to live in a world where I don’t have to accept such things as…

Excuse me, but he has a right to walk into any place with guns. Don’t question the right to walk into a Walmart, public school, arena parking lot or a music venue with loaded guns. It’s what makes America the leaders of the free world. It’s the American dream that the rest of the world is constantly clamouring to be a…

There is so much fucking evil in this world. I’ve been watching this girl come up on Youtube when she was just a kid and some asshole snatched her dream and her life from her in an instant. In. Front. Of. Her. Family. How can we fucking live like this? When is this fucking bullshit going to stop? Anybody who is…

The man has oratorical and political gifts that come along once in a lifetime. I can’t task Hillary for not hitting those kind of heights. She’s at her core a policy wonk. She speaks well, but on a very basic level. She has only occasional flashes of the “thrill up your leg” quality. But that’s okay. Obama’s…

Her speech, with its references to Seneca Falls and all the history that came before, was in perfect tune.

If your 3yo tells you he is going to fly, do you really expect him to put on a cape and go jump off the roof? The woman had 3 other kids with her and admits she made a mistake. But as someone who has worked in a children’s museum (and I mentioned this in another post), I have personally witnessed hundreds of lost kids…

There’s a post floating around somewhere from a woman who worked with gorillas for years and loves them dearly. She’s of course heartbroken by this incident but still supports what the zoo did because she could tell from the video that the gorilla’s body language was indicating stress (likely feeling threatened by the…

THANK YOU. I love animals. I'm vegetarian. I foster cats and dogs. But the weirdo response to this that somehow shooting the gorilla was the wrong call? That somehow this is just as sad as if that little boy had died? Nope. Nope. Nope. People need to stop anthropomorphizing animals. It's sad that this gorilla was shot…

So what? Even if that’s true, so what? Is failing to hold your son’s hand every second of every day punishable by his death via gorilla? Is that the standard by which we’re judging all parenting now? Uniformly? Or just Some People (wink wink nudge nudge)?

I can’t help but notice the ones getting painted as Corrupt Establishment Cartoon Villains all seem to be women. Lange, Wasserman-Schultz, Boxer, and, yes, Hillary. Am I saying lets canonize all these women for sainthood? No - but I will say those names come up over and over again as evidence of evil corruption in a…

Dude yes. You know that Citizens United case that Bernie keeps railing about? You know what needs to happen to overturn that ruling? A fifth liberal justice on the Supreme Court. Without that, it doesn’t matter what kind of law we pass or what kind of executive decision a liberal president issues. Campaign finance…

But what about these rules are unfair. It seems pretty darn fair that you have to be a registered Democrat to be a Democratic delegate. That does not count as unfair.

Lost me a long time ago, he has some good ideas, but you need WAY more than that to be an effective President.