Ho hum, another campus shooting
A friend of mine just posted this on Facebook:
ME: There was another shooting.
THEM: I’ve heard about that already.
ME: No, you’re thinking of the first shooting this week.
#America
So that’s how I heard about this latest shooting. It happened in Texas, where I hear they’re armed to the teeth in their own defense, so I’m not quite sure how this could have happened.
Oh, well. I guess it’s all just the natural order of things. We shouldn’t worry about it, because clearly there’s nothing anyone can do.
October 10th, 2015 at 2:47 am
Best comment on NPR yesterday, in response to Ben Carson: “Going to school should not require acts of heroism.”
Looking back, I seem to recall that sitting through some of those lectures required superhuman endurance anyway.
December 2nd, 2015 at 7:42 pm
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