Last year it was the Rapture, this year it’s the goddamn Mayans.
When you’re a neurotic, Jewish, New Yorker, it just feels like the end of the world every day.
Of the world’s 23 “rich” countries, the U.S. gun-related murder rate is almost 20 times that of the other 22. With almost one privately owned firearm per person, America’s ownership rate is the highest in the world; tribal-conflict-torn Yemen is ranked second, with a rate about half of America’s.
One gun PER PERSON<br>
<p>The Atlantic - A Land Without Guns: How Japan Has Virtually Eliminated Shooting
Got this off of Facebook, unsourced.
And true.
Simple. Perfect. Sad.
Can we stop with the “If only those teachers had…” lines? Those teachers are the reason hundreds of kids weren’t murdered that day. The only reason.
We owe it to them to change.
Guess which office I’m in today…
First ever Isserlis family tree.
I just did what any superhero would do,” Bennett said. “Saved his life.
I wish you could smell this. #DeepFriedDelight
Foliage
Morning on Long Island.
