Uvalde Police, ISD Police “No Longer Cooperating” With Investigation
“The Uvalde Police Department and the Uvalde ISD police force are no longer cooperating with the investigation into the massacre at Robb Elementary”
Monthly Archive: May 2022
Wine Tasting Through
I used to work as a sommelier, even though I still need autocorrect to spell the word properly. You know, wine tasting
Mocha-Vodka-Xanax and Learned Mental Helplessness
The over-use of mental illness as an excuse for poor behavior among rich and increasingly middle class whites is not admirable.
Reddit, Accountability, Law Enforcement, and Uvalde
The verified law enforcement officers of these very communities are very much presenting an opposing unified front
Thoughts On Wisdom
To earn wisdom, you have to have an acquaintance with foolishness, You have to have harbored some regret, some embarrassment, some envy, lust and rage.
Sunday Morning! “Voices in the Evening” by Natalia Ginzburg
Natalia Ginzburg’s prose captures the stark, fragmented absurdity of life after the cataclysm of Fascism: everything is right there, but how do we engage with it?
POETS Day!: Algernon Swinburne and the Ties that Bind
If you look into the history of the actual man you’d find that he was a devote of the Marquis de Sade and a raging alcoholic.
How to Stop the Next Uvalde
When the news alert about Tuesday’s shooting in Uvalde, Texas ran across my smartphone, I wondered…
Weekend Plans Post: Making a Frozen Pizza into Something Almost not Depressing
I don’t want to say that it wasn’t depressing at all… I mean, it’s a frozen pizza. But it was still pretty dang good.
Thursday Throughput: Monkeypox Edition
So, here’s the story on monkeypox. It is DNA orthopoxvirus — that’s the family that includes things smallpox.
Mass Shootings, Rampages, And Cascades of Failure
The causes of mass shootings don’t fit neatly into ideological priors and there is no one clear-cut obvious solution to them.
So Let’s Pass Some Laws and Make The World A Better Place
One of the biggest criticisms of the attempt to ban abortion or institute gun control is the simple pragmatic one: It won’t work.
Breaking: 19 Children, 2 Adults Killed in Texas Elementary School Shooting
Awful news coming out of a town 80 miles west of San Antonio: 21 dead in a mass shooting. The gunman is deceased.
