tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post8817368826877531584..comments2024-03-29T07:49:20.875-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: So much part of America we hardly noticeNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-16585839454233593192019-08-05T09:52:52.074-05:002019-08-05T09:52:52.074-05:00Maybe these mass shootings ARE the beginnings of a...Maybe these mass shootings ARE the beginnings of a civil war. Version 2.0--which will not be a video game.Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-46098009019203984332019-08-04T12:19:24.368-05:002019-08-04T12:19:24.368-05:00These mass shootings are going to tear apart the c...These mass shootings are going to tear apart the country as surely as a civil war.<br /><br />Which may, indeed, be the object of certain people in Russia. See Eric Zorn's latest column.Bitter Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04645909858616987997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-25854485632160772562019-08-04T10:51:27.777-05:002019-08-04T10:51:27.777-05:00We went to Kalamazoo Ribfest yesterday, and I coul...We went to Kalamazoo Ribfest yesterday, and I couldn't help but think of the latest shootings. Security was very apparent, everyone got searched or frisked upon entry, so it did seem relatively safe. Yeah, some nutter could have mowed down the crowd from outside the barricades, but I guess that's the unfortunate chances we take in this absurd new reality of ours. We did have a great time and heard solid sets from Joan Osborne and Spin Doctors. NikkiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15226032148784322997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-44614644971641844562019-08-04T09:32:36.507-05:002019-08-04T09:32:36.507-05:00"Men can get used to anything. The scoundrels..."Men can get used to anything. The scoundrels!" The Inspector in "Crime and Punishment."<br /><br />Tom<br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-33847262051155855142019-08-04T07:55:10.336-05:002019-08-04T07:55:10.336-05:00After the last Texas shooting took 26 lives, the G...After the last Texas shooting took 26 lives, the Governor, Ted Cruz and another official spoke at a press conference. Mealy-mouthed bullshit, a Cruz specialty, was all they could offer. Not word one about possible solutions or guns at all. Expect nothing new this time except a possible Wayne LaPierre homage to Kalashnikov.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08613528527379198505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-47224659935919150932019-08-04T02:20:28.790-05:002019-08-04T02:20:28.790-05:00My wife and I spent six hours at Cleveland's b...My wife and I spent six hours at Cleveland's biggest art festival of the summer, a very crowded affair that sprawls along several blocks of a commercial street. It always takes place on the first Saturday in August, and we've only missed a few of them in the past 25 years. Usually for something like a wedding or a road trip or another outdoor event. Almost every year the early-August weather is nearly perfect...clear and warm, with refreshing northeast breezes off Lake Erie. <br /><br />We went early and stayed until almost suppertime, and didn't have access to a radio or a TV, and we don't carry phones. Consequently, news of the shooting reached us quite late. We didn't even comment, except for "Oh, another shooting..." or something of that sort. <br /><br />But while I was at the art fair, completely unaware of the latest massacre, I couldn't help thinking about how easy it would be for someone to open up on the throngs looking at the purses and the photos and the jewelry...or maybe drive a truck down the middle of the crowded street. There weren't even the usual garbage trucks or city dump trucks that used to be positioned to prevent such slaughters. It all seems so ordinary now, the way plane crashes were when I was a kid. <br /><br />What used to bring about a feeling of horror now hardly merits a shrug. In a week, it'll all be forgotten...until the next one. Just like the last time...and the time before that. What a world. I guess it's true: Human beings can...and do...get used to almost anything.Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-43347471330824466472019-08-04T01:05:00.401-05:002019-08-04T01:05:00.401-05:00The red, white and blue with stars AK-47 rifles ar...The red, white and blue with stars AK-47 rifles are even more disturbing then the camouflage. America may be a nation of gun lovers, but handing out these inflatables as a prize to kids seems bizarre and distasteful.SandyKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14070366627628604352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-60335447230393487242019-08-04T00:33:52.927-05:002019-08-04T00:33:52.927-05:00Blow-up AK-47s...how adorable. I wrote a letter t...Blow-up AK-47s...how adorable. I wrote a letter to the editor after Sandy Hook, and among other observations, wondered if the NRA would suggest tiny automatic weapons for little kids. I thought I was being sarcastic until I read that there are manufacturers who make small pink and blue rifles for children. Makes you proud to be an American, doesn't it?Shari P.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02844720465680592417noreply@blogger.com