Part of the process that we go through post-mass shooting, is the obligatory analysis of who the shooter is/was and why they did it. Why oh why did they do it? Presumably if we can figure that out, then...
This will probably hardly register as a blip because we are averaging one mass shooting a day in this country, but it is yet another day of horror. Shortly after midnight on Mother's Day, a gunman walked into a...
A couple of years ago, the state of Mississippi came up with a scam, stop all abortions after 15 weeks. The law was so ridiculous on the face of it, and so sloppily written that the first federal judge...
This is one of many post mortems of the Kyle Rittenhouse homocide trial. Right now the lines are drawn pretty much at will future protestors be fair game for police and vigilantes, thereby chilling freedom of assembly, or was...
I could write a thousand words and fall a million words short of conveying the horror and disgust Sen. Chris Murphy expresses in this short speech: https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1529225547221708800 For those of you who do not subscribe to Twitter CBS News has an...
Well before his body was discovered, mass shooter/murderer Robert Card had raised a lot of questions. Why he did what he did and his access to the assault weapon he wielded with such deadly accuracy were such obvious questions...
When a Texas law enforcement official last week laid out how police waited in the halls of Robb Elementary School while children trapped with the gunman pleaded for help, my mind went back to 23 years ago. April 20, 1999....
Sometimes I feel like the character in the Dead Zone, waking up from a coma after a number of years. What happened to America? When did we become a country of gun fetishists? Firing a gun is all well and...
I'm sure you'll be glad to hear that Donald Trump reported an "amazing day" where there was "so much respect for the office of the president," which is good, since virtually nobody respects him personally -- and that he...
When suppertime came the old cook came on deck saying, Fellas it's too rough to feed ya. At 7 PM a main hatchway caved in, he said, Fellas it's been good to know ya   Gordon Lightfoot   The Wreck of...

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