"If God manifested Himself to us here He would do so in the form of a spray can advertised onTV." ~ PKD
Roger Ebert's take:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/op...fore.html?_r=1
Lincoln Fight Club...
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"Republicans in East Tennessee live in a government compound of national and state forests, land grant universities, nuclear research labs, and TVA lakes and dams, while pretending to be coonskin cappers guarding the mountain passes to stop socialism." - (Commenter from Oregon discussing the Tennessee Governors contest in the NYT) (hat tip to Hank IV)
I was just thinking about that. Dude stands up, draws his concealed-carry whatever (which tend to be short-barreled doohickeys for close-up use), tries to hit a moving target a hundred feet away, hits a bystander, someone else says OMG there's a second gunman, shoots at him, rinse, repeat.Originally Posted by Sappho
guns in the city are a mental health issue lol
Actually, if you want a public policy response to this issue, then mental health is probably the place you should be looking. Mental health care is, in just about every way, an afterthought that we don't think about at all, if we can help it. I lack the qualifications to diagnose, but I will venture a layperson's reading anyway. Anyone who walks into a peaceful crowd and starts killing people is suffering from some sort of mental illness. While there is no way to anticipate and prevent every such action, were mental health care a routinely available and routinely accessed thing, perhaps this sort of 'random' violence would be less common.
I'm wondering if he has been on antidepressants? I've heard of young people having obsessive thoughts of violence and sometimes even suicide while taking them.
"It amazes me how a society can paint itself into a corner by the laws it enacts." --John B. Wells.
Old people do, too. It's not an age issue.
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and the evolved or blessed gift of a rational mind and the power to conceptionalize and empathize that we fail to adequately celebrate as the more noble of our human qualities. The compasionate genius is not a heroic archtype, the sword swinging Hercules always sells more at the box office.
"It's a good thing there isn't a commandment in the Decalogue that simply says "Don't Be an Asshole," because a lot of American Christians would be in trouble right about now. And before you send me an email saying "I'm a Christian and we're not all like that," first write an email to a Christian you know who is like that."-J. Rowland
Take care, be good, & spread some around.
I wonder when they are gonna finally mandate drug testing to have one of those?
"It's a good thing there isn't a commandment in the Decalogue that simply says "Don't Be an Asshole," because a lot of American Christians would be in trouble right about now. And before you send me an email saying "I'm a Christian and we're not all like that," first write an email to a Christian you know who is like that."-J. Rowland
Take care, be good, & spread some around.
"It's a good thing there isn't a commandment in the Decalogue that simply says "Don't Be an Asshole," because a lot of American Christians would be in trouble right about now. And before you send me an email saying "I'm a Christian and we're not all like that," first write an email to a Christian you know who is like that."-J. Rowland
Take care, be good, & spread some around.
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