Shooting

America hardly recuperates from the shock of a mass shooting in a certain city when a new incident takes place somewhere else. Seven people were killed and more than 30 wounded in the shooting perpetrated by a 21-year-old man at a 4th of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois. …

When my son was young, I would read him the Declaration of Independence every July 4th. I read from the version reprinted in the NY Times. And, I muddled through the old fashioned hand written replica. Yes, there were parts that struck me as antiquated but the spirit of and…

Not another shooting! — I live in Arlington Heights, a northwest suburb in Illinois 25 miles from Chicago. It is a typical peaceful suburban community with many local eateries and parks. My son and I love walking or biking around the neighborhood or swimming at the local water park. …

An unstable, unhappy 22-year-old with an assault weapon, this time in Highland Park, Illinois — Yesterday, a kid from Highwood, the suburb north of Highland Park (about 30 miles north of Chicago) got his hands on an assault weapon and fired randomly into a crowd of families gathered to watch the town’s 4th of July parade. Many of our friends and family members live in…

I write funny shit on the internet and lately it’s pretty hard to do my job. America is glitching like free hotel porn. The rule of law is dissolving like a sand castle in a hurricane. SCOTUS has become the flagrantly dangling ball sack of an old guy in your…