The bullshit thoughts and prayers culture
We all know ‘thoughts and prayers’ means nothing and leads to virtually no action. So how does it still resonate so much? Continue Reading
Gun Control
3 years since Sandy Hook, and things are worse. Wow.
Out of all the mass shootings, if you were callously sit down and rank them (I wouldn’t necessarily recommend doing this, no), Sandy Hook might be the worst. A loss of life is a loss of life wherever it happens,… Continue Reading
If New Orleans were a country, it would be second-worst for gun violence in the world
Sobering data on gun violence in the first world relative to the developing world. Continue Reading
Newtown was a year ago and, on the gun front, nothing’s really happened. Is it mostly just politics?
There’s absolutely no way to process Newtown. Anyone who claims there is, or tries to assign some kind of idea or causation to it, is wrong. There is no clear motive. Here’s a list of things that were blamed aside from… Continue Reading
This will be a big week for Alex Jones, probably
Seeing as how the 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination is this Friday, and JFK’s assassination represents the primary conspiracy theory in American history, one would think this is going to be a big week for Mr. Alex Jones, ostensibly the… Continue Reading