It’s Monday. I’ve been waiting for this day all weekend. Since Friday, really. It’s great to be here at work again. Actually, given what went on in Aurora, Colorado, I guess it’s good to be pretty much anywhere today. Another good reason to only go out in public when it’s absolutely necessary (like, to buy beer).
As for the weekend, well, it went too quickly (as usual). I did manage to clear some trails in the woods a little bit. Not a whole lot, as I don’t have a bulldozer (a mini excavator would be ideal, if you’re trying to think of what to get me for Christmas; I’m partial to Kubota, but I’m not all that fussy).
Otherwise, I just found it very difficult to get my ass in gear, and wound up doing a lot of reading, and a lot of not burying my nose in a computer screen. Saturday night was kind of odd, as we were sitting around the fire in the dark, both my wife and my stepson had their faces buried into their laptops. It was kind of like sitting out there alone, but together. So I went and got my tablet, but I just wasn’t into it, so I just went to bed (which was probably a good thing, as I could use a little extra sleep).
But now, glorious Monday is here. Oh boy.
I am not really surprised:
Elsewhere, Steven Taylor passes along the news that certified nutcase Alex Jones doesn’t believe the mass shooting in Aurora was the act of a demented maniac, but was “planned by the Obama administration (along with Fast and Furious and the Gabrielle Giffords shooting) as a plot to let the UN take our guns away.” Perhaps Jones will ask Ron Paul what he thinks of that the next time he appears on the show.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/07/quick-peek-inside-latest-nutball-right
If one was going to pursue a possible conspiracy, a local imahm has raised
the question of how long anyone with a Muslim-sounding name would have gone unnoticed receiving thousands of rounds of ammunition in dozens of
deliveries mostly to his place of work at the same hospital treating the victims.
I also had questions as I watched the all-white city counsel and mayor
be introduced at the prayer vigil as Aurora is very ethnically diverse
containing one of the largest Ethiopian communities in the US. A priest, a rabbi and 4 different pastors but no Muslim asked for healing.
The shooter (I will not honor his name) is surely insane but just as surely was
helped in part by the privilege of being pale and common.