Thoughts and Prayers.  Enough of ‘em floating around out there to pollute the atmosphere – if only they actually had substance.  If my child died in a school shooting and someone had the unmitigated gall to offer me their meaningless, mindless ‘thoughts and prayers’, I would throw horse dung in their face!  But y’know … easy for me to say, right?  But let’s see what a very religious man, a former…

In the past 72 hours, 93 people were killed in acts of gun violence in the United States according to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA).  I lost track of how many were injured.  In total, 8,597 people have died by being shot in 2025.  And yet, Congress is busily trying to ‘undo’ much of the gun legislation that has been passed when cooler heads prevailed, saying that literally any form of…

You probably figured that after Wednesday’s school shooting in Georgia, I’d be back on my soapbox about the gun crisis in the U.S.  Well, here I am and here’s the soapbox … My solutions may seem a bit radical to some, but desperate times call for desperate measures, and if children continually getting shot & killed in school doesn’t make for desperate times, then I don’t know what does.  Nearly…

Although I initially wrote this post in 2021, this is the 2nd year in a row that I nearly forgot until reminded by our friend Larry over at Just Drive, Will You who posted yesterday, on the actual day, reminding me — and now I’m a day late!  But, better late than never, right?   Today, I think this post, this National Day, is more relevant than ever, given that gun violence, and especially mass…

Another mass shooting in California yesterday.  Two in three days.  Today is the 24th day of the year 2023 and we have had 38 mass shootings in the United States already this year.  There have been 2,790 gun deaths thus far (as of 12:30 a.m. on January 24th), 21 of them children under the age of 11*.  So naturally, those of us who care, those of us who are not gun worshipers, are distraught. I’ve…

DAMMIT!!! 🤬

Wednesday, 1:30 a.m. 1:30 this morning, I had just finished my music post and was getting ready to put it on the schedule for the usual time, 11:00 a.m.  Suddenly my phone went mad with a knock-knock here and a knock-knock there.  Being nearly deaf, my notification sound is a sharp knock, which I can hear much better than any tone.  Usually, it is silent at 1:30 in the morning, so I knew…

Here’s What We Need To Do …

Well, folks, another mass shooting mars the landscape, this one at a July 4th parade in Highland Park, an affluent subdivision of Chicago, Illinois.  No surprise … we could have and did predict it.  Six people dead, a few dozen injured.  Ho hum … just another day here in paradise, eh?  Well, maybe not to the victims and the families of the victims, but hey … the rest of us can just get on with…

The Week’s Best Cartoons 6/4

I don’t know how she does it, but our friend TokyoSand over at Political Charge always manages to find the best of the week’s political cartoons.  Not a lot to laugh about these days, folks, but the ‘toons are still awesome and depict our lives with few or no words in a way that lengthy essays cannot do.  Be sure to follow the link at the end to see the many more ‘toons she has chosen this week. …