We are watching Mike Rowe paint the Mackinaw Bridge and eating homemade cookies. Evils of the world be damned.

I heard a report of a teacher who put all 14 of her students in the small bathroom off the classroom and pulled some equipment in front of the door so it looked unused. When the police came to the door, she wouldn't unlock it. She said, "You're the police. Get a key."

I think we need a better system for making sure everyone with mental illness gets competent treatment, because it would make for better lives. As a side effect, it might identify the tiny percentage of mentally ill who could become violent.

Historically, there have always been murderers and people who start killing at random. The problem is that modern large-magazine guns up the death count exponentially.

Npr coverage seems to be very cautious and not releasing unconfirmed information.

Good.

Brenda, as a parent myself, even thinking that the gun laws and gun culture in the States are completely awful, I found that Slate article's tone massively counterproductive and offensive. It read like certain Facebook posts some friends who can't stand the president make seven times a day and will take any excuse to slam him. I've seen a hell of a lot of posts about the need to actually talk about gun violence and gun control that don't resort to ad hominem attacks.

I think the Onion captures how I'm feeling about it.

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I could seriously use some zebra footage, I tell you what.

This has Zebras.

I think, if I had a child, I would have to raise him/her in some sort of bullet-proof hamster ball, I would be so terrified every minute.

I would have to raise him/her in some sort of bullet-proof hamster ball

Our school discourages this approach.

Apparently Emmett fell asleep in his English class. His teacher wasn't pleased.

This may be our last experiment with midnight movies.