Memoirous

I meant to post something about the earthquake that has killed over 35,000 people but I just couldn’t. I meant to post something about the mass shooting at MSU (Michigan State Uni) just down the street, but I was too overwhelmed. My daughter works near there and I have many friends who are on-campus staff and faculty. I’m without words. Yesterday I sat in a chair and read a book. Outside I could hear morning birds just waking up, twittering. The sunshine promised a bit of warmth. The snow has melted off the deck. I await . . . whatever comes next.

“The only thing to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” Really? How does this work or what would it look like?  from Wikipedia The Bald Knobbers , an 1880s vigilante group from Missouri , wearing crude " blackface " masks typical of the post-Reconstruction era in the United States -- as portrayed in the 1919 film, The Shepherd of the Hills . Ku Klux Klan members march down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. in 1928 another example of citizen justice one man with a gun saving his town from thugs George Zimmerman, another man with a gun who invoked the Stand-Your-Ground Law to justify killing Trayvon Martin--an unarmed teen carrying Skittles Ruby Ridge--from all reports a major cock-up by gov't law officials* also from Wikii: On about August 24, 1992, the fourth day of the siege on the Weaver family, FBI Deputy Assistant Director Danny Coulson wrote a memo: OPR 004477 1. Charge against Weaver is Bull Shit. Mar...