Whoops! Let's see now, it's been just a few days since I posted the op and -- well -- another week, another shooting, this time in Las Vegas ( Read more... )

From the Seattle Times: Shortly after a gunman stalked SPU’s Otto Miller Hall on Thursday afternoon, fatally shooting one student and wounding two others, Meis made a split-second decision that some now say helped stop further carnage ( Read more... )

From NorthJersy.com:
In one exchange of text messages on the second day of the lane closures, Wildstein alludes to messages the Fort Lee mayor had left complaining that school buses were having trouble getting through the traffic ( Read more... )

Remember George Zimmerman, the guy who -- locked in a life-or-death battle with a crazed skittles-armed Trayvon Martin -- had no choice but to shoot that black teenager dead? (We know this, of course, because George Zimmerman lived to tell us about it and the only person who could truly dispute it, Trayvon Martin, did not ( Read more... )

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20957587So someone objected to the idea of wearing a mandated school identification. This brilliant genius decided to call it the Mark of the Beast. I mean I know people hate school and all that at that age, but calling it a tool of the Devil is taking that just a bit too far. I had to wear an ID in K-12 and ( Read more... )

Remember this guy?


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Inspired by the recent post about gun control, I wanted to talk about guns. More specifically, what guns do. It helps to nail down some basics before getting into higher-level discussions about gun policy. So what exactly do guns do? How should we talk about guns? I have a story.
( Put a bag over your head. )

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The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act) requires that cigarette packages and advertisements have larger and more visible graphic health warnings.

FDA issued a proposed rule, Required Warnings for Cigarette Packages and Advertisements, proposing to modify the required warnings that appear on cigarette packages and ( Read more... )

Like many others, when I see public safety campaigns, my initial reaction is "This is too much safety." Now, I'm not coming at this from a macho point of view, or an old-fashioned, nostalgic wist for better times when children roamed the wild suburban landscape with nary a cell phone, pager, call or check-up from mother. Kids disappear for the day ( Read more... )