Category Archives: Guns in the U.S. of A.

Good news: 4th of July mass shootings went down since 2019!

Posted on July 11, 2023 by Naomi

Down to how many? Here, per Harper’s Weekly Review, are the mass shootings a few weeks ago: [M]ass shootings occurred in Pennsylvania, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, California, Michigan, two cities in Indiana, two cities … Continue reading →

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SCOTUS apoplexy for a couple of days. Then what?

Posted on July 6, 2023 by Naomi

Let us count the ways SCOTUS has, in the past couple of years, roused a majority of us citizens to a towering rage. Let us also count the groups of enraged citizens. Let us, but first… A few days ago … Continue reading →

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The answer to the central question of our lives

Posted on July 5, 2023 by Naomi

Why? Why the craziness ever since November 2016? Over the past seven years, I’ve spent considerable time trying to figure out why anybody I knew would vote for Trump. And I came up with quite a few scientific and quasi-scientific … Continue reading →

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