Gunners go wild

The fashionable accessory for summer, for Texas and Somalia.

It's a good think they have open carry of long guns in Texas, because now we get to see exactly how mature responsible gun owners behave. An inactivated Marine known only by James (Marines hate the term "former Marine," and it is inaccurate. Also he doesn't want pro-gunners to harass him) viewed and videoed an Open Carry demonstration:

 What he saw there struck him as especially provocative. Not only had the open-carry activists come to a typically relaxed, family friendly part of town, they were displaying intimidating firearms just three days after a major gun massacre in Southern California. What he didn't anticipate was that they would soon be pursuing him for several city blocks with cameras of their own, harassing him and later posting the footage online, where they would also level homophobic slurs and violent threats against him.

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Ignorance Disguised as Skepticism (Brought to You by Greed)

California is receiving no rain, and the Sierra Nevada Mountains had only 30 percent snow cover. The results: exceptional drought and a coming water emergency.

 
First I'll declare these two as facts and will support them later: there's nothing scientific about Global Warming denial, and broadly speaking, there's also nothing scientific or even intellectual about skepticism.

I find myself stressed out about Global Warming, and it does keep me up at night. Environmental catastrophe is upon us and the consequences will continue to get worse as long as the people we've put in charge of our country and corporations are either paralyzed or are in bribed ignorance.

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Dealing with Stress

I'd be the first to admit I don't handle stress well at all, and the oddest things can stress me out. Putting away my change at the grocery store? I feel like I'm holding up everybody and all eyes are on me. If I wait to get away from the checking line to do it, I still feel like all eyes are on me. The feeling I look nervous itself is a aggravates the stress. Sometimes I can't get my hands to work and I just have to stuff bills, metal and receipt into my pocket and find a private place to sort it out.

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Ignorance is bliss. Until it becomes embarrassing.

Operation American Spring: ten million protesters

Now we know how many holes it takes to fill the Capitol Mall

When is a revolution not a revolution? When it's fiction.