Thank you! Maybe the new Big Boss will lead to the wholesale change, but I basically doubt it.

Ugh, good luck Jesse.

Everything is making me cry this week. Just read a Jezebel article about a woman who had a non-viable pregnancy and it was just heartbreaking.

Also I am not super busy at work which makes me not want to even do the minimal work I have, which is bad. Ugh.

Yes, white guys carry a lot of privilege, but low-income white guys don't feel like they do and that nobody cares. A lot of privilege comes from money/social class.

Yeah, I've been thinking about the same issues quite a lot. This is one of those places where intersectionality comes in and can be useful, although I get how the term itself is probably alienating to some people. In my own family, there are significant differences in terms of income and class level and so I see a lot of the ways that privilege and class are linked in ways that lock out low income whites, and I see how often those same people assert their racial privileges as a way to compensate for their economic losses and hardship.

Husband has progressed to the on-site interview portion of another job. Yay. Please let this job search be over soon.

Interview~ma for your DH, Dana.

That Utah Lt. Gov. speech was surprisingly good. It's sad that I feel surprised when our elected officials display decency, but I guess that's where we are right now.

In good news, one of my gun nut coworkers (50 handguns, 30 shotguns, and a concealed carry permit to his name) suggested we could use better gun control today. Words I never expected to hear from this person.

50 handguns, 30 shotguns

Jesus. I get that there are collectors, but still, that seems so crazy to me. (Noting once again that I super hate guns, so my exposure to people who super love them is nil.) (Though Tim and I have pretty different POVs on gun control, even after Orlando. He's lukewarm on an assault weapons ban, because "they're already out there". But dude, the idea is to limit how many MORE are out there. It's not about eliminating gun violence, because that won't happen, but reducing the risk of harm. It's, essentially, like vaccinating, god damn it. Do it and you reduce -- but not eliminate -- the risk of harm. Don't do it and people die, in larger and larger numbers. Gah. It's just frustrating. I know that I suffer from the need to always be right, but seriously, an assault weapons ban -- I'm not talking hunting guns or handguns, and I made that clear to Tim -- seems like a no-brainer in terms of reducing the risk of harm. Jesus.)

My father has multiple guns, all kept in a safe. My brother and I have told him several times now that if he wants them to stay in family he best start talking to people. If he wants money from them he best sell them. Once something happens to him where we are making any decisions, they will be destroyed.

My uncle has had family guns he never used stolen out of his home. I have no interest in keeping any guns in circulation.

My father has multiple guns, all kept in a safe.

My whole damn family has guns -- my mom, my dad, and my bro. I feel so deviant by comparison. (I do sleep with a baseball bat under the bed, so there's that.)

I get that Rebecca. There's a bit of a generational divide in our family when it comes to guns. Cody's dad and his uncles all love them, Cody and his bro not so much. One of uncles collects cannons and dueling pistols, but for most of them it's all about guns that actually shoot that they can carry around with them for protection.

Oh and their guns are emphatically unsecured! Always bugs me when we are there.