Thoughts and prayers. Too soon to talk about it. Fake news. Nobody saw it coming. Rinse and repeat.

A club that no parent wants to belong to.

And then have to pay the gun dealer.

Being scientific

What he said.

Giant air sucking machines and other stuff

Giant air sucking machines may be coming your way.  And that's a good thing.

The abortion pill, why it works well and why it's being prevented from doing so.  And why the Republicans are out of step with the rest of America.  And why even talking about having had an abortion makes you a whore.

What gun shots do to a body.  What a warped sense of masculinity might make someone do.

Cartoonist Sarah Anderson.

Lawrence Wilkerson talks about the USA splitting apart.

Did you know there were many more types of potatoes than what we can buy at the store?

Fukushima in pictures four years later.

Sunday slurry

Robocall justice.  I promise never to buy any product being sold by cold calling people.

Science!

Prisoner's dilemma.

Explaining what privilege means.

Torture doctors could be prosecuted?  It's about time!!  Jean Maria Arrigo needs to be praised as well.

Wonderful graphs showing that human activity is warming the world.  And plastic in your food will kill you.

Donald Trump will allow Jeb to position himself as the sane one.

More guns = more crime.

Not one more.

Asteroids to trash to drought. What's not to love?

Huge asteroid will pass close to Earth Monday... can be seen with 'strong binoculars'.

A Dutch man decides to pick up plastic trash on his way to work.  A 20 year old tells us he can get the plastic out of our oceans.

Racism defined by a self-described redneck.

How we can address gun violence and gun safety.

It's not just California having an epic drought.

Not One More

Gun violence survivors share their photos.

Misogyny let loose. After the Isla Vista shooting, the anger of those males who feel they deserve women's attention has come to the forefront.  And women try to explain what a day can be like.

Southern Law Poverty Center reports on White Homicide Worldwide and begins with this chilling quote:

A typical murderer drawn to the racist forum Stormfront.org is a frustrated, unemployed, white adult male living with his mother or an estranged spouse or girlfriend. She is the sole provider in the household. Forensic psychologists call him a “wound collector.” Instead of building his resume, seeking employment or further education, he projects his grievances on society and searches the Internet for an excuse or an explanation unrelated to his behavior or the choices he has made in life.

Someone who left the NRA when the bozos came in.

First Day of School

If it's Tuesday, it must be...

Why men should not vote.

Trying to find some reason women should not take birth control.

Citizens United Repeal Amendment Goes Viral Via Reddit

Krugman talks about austerians.

Plane safety.

Our pile of guns doesn't make us safer:

It doesn't matter how many thousands of lives are lost (between 2001 and 2010, about 270,000 U.S. residents died in shootings, including homicide, suicide and accidents). And it doesn't seem to matter how many mass killings there are, like the one Friday at the elementary school in Connecticut.

Doonesbury agrees.

DNA can be changed.

Cats, the Moon and everything in between

Reddit asks:  What is something your current or past employer would NOT want the world to know about their company?  The responses about banking, food service, recycling, chemical waste, crony drunks on the job... makes one want to dig a hole and hide in it....

Hell cat.

Mars had water.  But does that mean it had life?  And how about a super computer on the MoOOooon!?

Bees, birds and butterflies:



Reasons to vote Republican:



Who will stop the gun violence?

Stephen Barton survived the mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado. But 12 others didn’t. Watch his personal message asking President Obama and Governor Romney to offer their plans on how they will end gun violence, and join him by signing our petition.

Like... you know...



The worm from the CENTER OF THE EARRRRRRTH.....!1!!1!1!

Apparently we must accept the deaths of innocents

Because protesting them would be denying the gun companies ... I mean denying gun-loving Merikans their freedoms. We are helpless and must accept we are being controlled by terrorist organizations ... I mean corporations who own our elected officials and make money by causing death ... I mean freedom.

Just imagine the rumpus if the killer had been Muslim....

Thanks, NRA!

When these inevitable shootings occur, we need to start calling them an NRA event. Or Shootings sponsored by the NRA. Or start talking about how we must just accept the deaths because the NRA wants us to...

Couldn't take this down fast enough

Rush Limbaugh's Tucson billboard.

Read this

Tom Tomorrow says it all.

This is so hilarious

Can't you take a joke?



Ha ha ha ha....

Enough already!

Gee... Sarah Palin with a rifle

How subtle and clever. But it doesn't mean anything. It's not about killing liberals or anything. Just about gun rights. And the knowledge that guns scare liberals. And stuff.



Update: an enlarge pic

I think the answer is yes.

Is the NRA Encouraging Anti-Government Extremism?

Apparently the actions of National Rifle Association member Timothy McVeigh didn't teach the organization that its violent anti-government rhetoric can have dangerous consequences. On a day when thousands of Tea Party activists are taking to the streets to protest Tax Day, the Violence Policy Center has released a report today chronicling the increasing ties between the gun lobby and the Tea Party movement, and the NRA's adoption of much of the "Patriot movement's" anti-government language. The center sees direct parallels between the NRA's current activities and those in the years leading up to McVeigh's fateful decision to blow up the Oklahoma federal building:

"The gun lobby is once again embracing—and, equally important, validating—the anti-government rhetoric being offered by activists that range from Tea Party members, through pro-gun advocates, to members of the militia movement. And as was the case with Timothy McVeigh, the risk lies not so much with the organized members of these groups, but with the "lone wolves" who not only embrace their rhetoric, but are willing to act on it with violence."