The revival of the national gun debate has re-energized failed graphic designers throughout cyberspace. Just when you thought the Presidential election had sapped all their energy these folks have rebounded from November’s muck to grace our monitors and tablets with their amazing PowerPointy/Photoshoppy dexterity! Being nimble of finger and savvy of Google these modern day Rembrandts-cum-Jeffersons have (more…)
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Posted: January 31, 2013 in Observations and CommentaryTags: data, gun control, guns, humor, humour, information, interwebs, life, news, USA
more collateral damage
Posted: December 15, 2012 in Observations and CommentaryTags: culture, death, guns, life, Newtown, rights, shooting, society, United States
It is hard to write through tear stained eyes, but not impossible. What is impossible to comprehend, even fractionally, is the scope of the horror in Newtown, Connecticut yesterday. 26 people mowed down at the hand of a deranged killer, massacred like characters in a video game. 26 people, 20 of them children. Good lord. How does one wrap their head around that? 20 children. It is (more…)
who was that again?
Posted: October 2, 2017 in Observations and CommentaryTags: 2017, America, guns, Las Vegas, mass shootings, murder, shooting, society
Not so very long ago Americans knew who Charles Whitman was. On August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman shot 46 people from the 27th floor of the University of Texas Tower in Austin. Fifteen died. It shocked the country. The following week the cover of Life magazine was a sobering photograph of the UT Tower through a window with two bullet holes. The shooting was so horrifying and unique that the two major wire news organizations (more…)