everything has changed

Summer is here. Sac is creeping up. My class rocked. I feel whole and empty at the same time.

Hopefully Brian's dad will be the coolest and let me rent his old apartment, yeah!

Sometimes the stomach aches.

You need to lose focus a little bit to be the most focused.

You have to go past that line, just to know where the line IS.

I think I'm ready to go back to the line and stay there.

Got your tickets to the gun show? Not if 20/20 has anything to do with it...

Anyone can get a hold of a gun. Anyone. They can find one, acquire it, load it, shoot it, and kill you with it.

Anyone can pick up a knife, a crobar, a two by four, and stab, beat, and kill you with it.

Anyone has the power to come up behind you with some piano wire and slit your throat.


So why is it such a big deal when 20/20 buys guns? At a gun show? Legally? Why not show how easy it is to buy guns off of a 6 year old in the hood? Why not show how easy it is to go to your dad's (or a friend's dad's) house and grab a shotgun out of his hunting case? Or the gun in your parents night stand?

All this article does is spread the news that you can get a gun with no ID, no background check, no information, cash, legally, at a gun show. Awesome.

No, not that kind of gun show...

If I had a friend or family member who was victimized in the Virginia Tech shootings, like the person in the article, I would be more concerned with gun safety education, with suicide and depression awareness, with giving mentally unstable people treatment instead of sending them out into the world with a bottle of Zoloft and a pat on the ass. I would most definitely not cry about gun shows and look at a gun and think it's an awful thing, especially since the gunman in the VT shooting legally purchased a gun in a SHOP, with ID, with a background check, and not at a SHOW.



As U.S. citizens, we have the right to bear arms. Taking away guns will not minimize gun related deaths. It will lead to spiked crime against innocent law abiding citizens who every one will know is now unarmed. Crime not only committed by the hands of civilians, I will add.

People must face decisions every single day. Have you been to a Target or Whole Foods on a Saturday afternoon? Or the morning of the Superbowl? I'm sure you've felt like shooting yourself AND others if you have gone through either or both of these experiences, because I know I have. But do I go out to the gun show and spend $5,000, get 10 guns and 9 of my closest buddies and shoot every spaced out Bears fan or snot-nosed screaming kid? Nope.

Let's work on not making others homicidal maniacs, instead of wasting time, money, and effort going to gun shows and buying a bunch of shit.

Poem of the Week

"I like money.
Money is green.
I can buy a machine.
I like money."


From someone's brother's something.
SOURCE

Are You A Douche (AA edition)

via Things I Fucking Hate

America Fails Grade School Science

According to a study commissioned by California Academy of Sciences, American's do not know the answers to some pretty basic questions. It may have been a while since 3rd grade, but if you think on these questions for longer than a second, the answers should be obvious.

According to the study:

• Only 53% of adults know how long it takes for the Earth to revolve around the Sun.
• Only 59% of adults know that the earliest humans and dinosaurs did not live at the same time.
• Only 47% of adults can roughly approximate the percent of the Earth's surface that is covered with water.*
• Only 21% of adults answered all three questions correctly.

The best (worst?) part of it all is that the questions were multiple choice. If you think the Earth revolves around the sun in a day, you must live in Chicago since we do experience every season in a 24 hour period more than a few days out of the year.

I took the 6 question quiz and got all 6 answers correct. Think you could do it? Are you SURE you could do it? Try it out here: http://www.calacademy.org/ (on the bottom right under "Test Your Science")

Manuel v. Manual