Can We All Just Get Along?

Apparently not.  All of this sickens and disgusts me more than I can say.  God help us all.


July 5:  Shooting of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge


July 6:  Shooting of Philando Castile in Minneapolis


July 7:  President Obama on the Fatal Shootings of Sterling and Castile


Later that same day:  WFAA (Dallas):  Four Officers Dead after Attack at Dallas Protest

The front page of Friday's Dallas Morning News following Thursday's shootings downtown. pic.twitter.com/ExIlxEMA9V

— Dallas Morning News (@dallasnews) July 8, 2016

July 8: President Obama on the Attacks on Law Enforcement in Dallas

How We Remember 9/11 Now

via NBC News Photoblog

Your Head Trucker is glad to be back online after a loss of internet connection that began on Saturday; but sad to learn of the grievous attack in Libya that killed our ambassador, and the asshole film that provoked it. As one commentator has put it, this was a case of "some Christian fringe extremists provoking Muslim fringe extremists," and I have no respect for either kind, and neither variety deserves to be dignified with the name of religion - which is supposed to make men more just and more merciful, not less.

Also worth your time is this article by the New Yorker's Amy Davidson: How We Remember 9/11 Now. Just go read it; I have nothing to add to what she says.