Would you want me to have a gun at school?

“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”
Facepalm. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/22/us/nra-calls-for-armed-guards-at-schools.html

Oh Google...

Interesting Op-Ed on Google. I kind of wish there was a "dumbed down for middle school" version of this so I could show my middle schoolers why they shouldn't use Google for everything in their life.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/19/opinion/why-google-has-too-much-power-over-your-private-life.html

Guess what? Walmart's corrupt

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/18/business/walmart-bribes-teotihuacan.html


I know. I am as shocked and surprised as you are. Corruption by Walmart? In Mexico?
All I know is that I'm so glad that when I go visit the pyramids in Mexico I can also easily purchase my very much needed Dr. Thunder at the closely and conveniently located Walmart.

I know, I know...

So it's been forever and a day. Trust me, this teaching thing is no cake walk. Though occasionally there is cake. So that helps.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/18/nyregion/silent-since-shootings-nra-could-face-challenge-to-political-power.html

So, with everything that has happened in CT- do we actually think something will change? The optimist in me hopes so, but there is a part of me that thinks nothing will change. Ah apathy. Nothing says holiday spirit quite like it, right?

It is refreshing to hear many pro-gun government folks come out saying that some things do need to change; and it's good to have the discussion started about how we treat mental illness in this country- I just hope that for once, something actually comes of it. Only time will tell I suppose...maybe once we fall off the fiscal cliff and/or the world ends on Friday?