Google+Blog plugin is still borked. No response from plugin designer. Unsure what my options are at this point. So, meanwhile, here are things I posted in Google Plus since yesterday, much of which is about the Colorado movie theater shooting:
The shooting
- My second thought on the Colorado theater shooting – Which was about some people’s first thoughts.
- “There will be other days for politics” – Obama and Romney were, as far as I heard, pretty class acts regarding the shooting. Too many other politicians were not.
- And, on cue, a tragedy becomes a talking point – One of the first (but by no means last) automatic seizing of the tragedy for use in pursuit of someone’s ideological goals. Stay classy, Gohmert (R-Texas)!
- And here’s what a positive response to tragedy looks like – The local blood bank organization is having to turn away walk-ins looking to donate.
- Social media upsides and downsides during a tragedy – Remarkably enough, not everyone with the same name as the alleged shooter is, in fact, that person.
- Light a candle against the darkness – The world is not all bad. It’s useful to remember that sometimes.
- Sadly, “The Onion” Knows Exactly Too Much About Us – Sometimes, it’s scary.
- This is why we can’t have nice things (Colorado Theater Killing Edition) – Because, of course, the response to a tragedy is to Do Something, to Pass a Law, or Impose a Restriction. Even if it wouldn’t have avoided the tragedy, and isn’t likely to do much to avert future ones.
- Silly risk assessment, or audience-assuring security theater? – More knee-jerk reactions by movie theaters to the shooting.
Other stuff:
- I’m not quite sure what they put in the water over in Japan … – Japanese music videos are often zany. This one is downright hallucinogenic.
- A rose by any other name would be nom-nom-nom-nom! – Romantic and tasty!
- I had no idea there was an actual girl from Ipanema – The song turns 50. It’s still fun.
- An oldie but goodie – “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the official version.
- We did it once. We can — and should — do it again – The anniversary of Apollo 11.
- Funding for the goose is funding for the gander – Right-wing pol is shocked, shocked, to find that taxpayer money being given to religious schools might actually go to Muslims.
- Learning to live with the Dark Side of the Continent – A religiously conservative woman moves to Canada, home of the evil nationalized health service that also funds abortions — and what she found there.
- Remembering the Summer of 1972 – A moment of silence for the dead of the Munich Olympics, forty years ago, seems appropriate to me, but not to the IOC.
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