I feel sad! But I like snuggles!

This is basically the conclusion I came to earlier in the evening when Seabiscuit was all, "I can see you are upset! Therefore I will vigorously encourage you to play! And also to pet me! Because then you will feel better!"

And he was right.

The whole shooting thing makes me want to curl up in a ball and never leave my house. I don't want to hear the political quarterbacking that will be going around the office on Monday. I don't want to run into random stupid people making idiotic remarks at the grocery store.

I want to think I'd feel this way regardless of the political leanings of the intended victim. I'm heartsick over the whole thing.

Phooey. I just spent the last hour or so cleaning up Isaac's barf. He threw up in MY bed. On HIS SISTER too. And on me during one of the later episodes.

Not the best reason to stay up past my bedtime if you ask me.

Not the best reason to stay up past my bedtime if you ask me.

Amazing how much being out/up late involves puke.

Ha!

Thinking about how pointless her death is keeps sending me off crying.

Sadder still, that she was there precisely because she cared about her future and her country. Christina Green, by all accounts, was a special little girl.

Ah, I can't decide if it's time to go into the hospital or not. Never actually went to sleep. Hmm. Hmm. Will watch more Justified and then decided, while my Nook charges.

After Oklahoma City, people started looking at the militias suspiciously, wondering what else they might be up to rather than just "we're patriotic Mer'cins, jist wantin' to be ready when them Commies coming stomping down Main Street!" Then people started reading their releases and websites and figuring out what stuff like white pride meant. Darn us liberals with reading comprehension.

Like, was it thought that anti-Reagan liberals has triggered that assassination attempt?

Since Hinckley pretty immediately said he shot Reagan to impress Jodie Foster, it didn't really come up. We were too busy mocking Al Haig for saying he was in charge.

No one thought anyone but "crazy" about the first Ford assassination attempt, since Squeaky Fromme was a Manson follower. Sara Jane Moore did say she tried to kill Ford because he had "declared war on the Left." (She was a little late. Nixon really did.) I would say that almost any act of violence against a government facility or university in that era would have been attributed to anti-war activists.

A friend of mine posted this link on FB: [link] Fascinating and horrifying chronological list of violent incidents and/or rhetoric related to violent insurrection since mid-2008.