4 Those of you who had e-mail messages to me bounce today, please resend them—I’m using a workaround through Gmail while Verizon, my ISP, lumbers towards the problem (which seems to be with their suddenly hypersensitive spam filters; two hours of my life I’ll never get back).
Important piece by @PhilKlay https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/us-military-targeted-killings.html?smid=url-share
“Don’t Talk to Me About ‘Civility.’ On Tuesday Morning Those Children Were Alive.” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/opinion/roxane-gay-uvalde-school-shooting.html?referringSource=articleShare
Multitudes of children went to school today feeling lucky that the end of the school year is in sight & they will only have to worry for a few days/weeks more about being butchered in their classrooms, martyrs to the misconstrued 2nd amendment.
“If you address the madness of gun violence in America, then you have to acknowledge the intellectual and moral shallowness of the gun rights position adopted by Williamson and others of his ilk.” https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/05/kevin-williamson-uvalde-school-shooting-guns-used.html
11y saw me crying and asked if it was about Uvalde.
“Yeah,” I said. “It’s really sad and I worry about y’all.”
“It’s okay, Dad,” he said to me, “we train for this.”
Fuck. I’m broken. He’s in sixth grade. A math nerd. A gamer. He’s not a goddamn Marine. He “trains” for *this?*
