10,000 gun deaths

Jim Carrey – yeah, that Jim Carrey, the actor – also has a reputation for tweeting out drawings – uh, political cartoons – he creates that illustrate some anti-conservative point. It was only today I saw one of these drawings. The one sent out a couple days ago features a hundred dollar bill partially dipped in red. The text says:

10,000 gun deaths in 2019 and the year is far from over. What Osama bin Laden did to us was terrible but he doesn’t hold a candle to Mitch McConnell.

Once you’ve seen that one click on the “X” in the upper right to get to his Twitter feed and see what he’s been doing over the last few months. It is good to see he’s very much on our side.



Heavily gerrymandered North Carolina was allowed to keep its district maps by the US Supremes. However, a state court said not so fast. A three-judge panel is requiring the maps for state House and state Senate be redrawn for the 2020 elections. The argument is based on the state constitution and says the current maps violate the rights of Democratic voters.

And because the ruling is based on the state constitution it can’t be appealed to the US Supremes. It can be appealed to the state Supremes. But since that body is 6-1 Democrats (big gains in the 2016 & 2018 elections) the GOP has decided not to appeal. Their stranglehold on the NC state government will likely end next year.



The Mindset List used to be put out by Beloit College. Now it is being put out by Marist College. The list includes things that have “always” or “never” been true during the lives of this year’s college freshmen. It is to help their professors understand the mindset of the new students. Here’s a few items from this year’s list:

Like Pearl Harbor for their grandparents, and the Kennedy assassination for their parents, 9/11 is an historical event.

The Tech Big Four--Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Google -- are to them what the Big Three automakers were to their grandparents.

They are as non-judgmental about sexual orientation as their parents were about smoking pot.

They have witnessed two African-American Secretaries of State, the election of a black President, Disney’s first black Princess, and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Only two-thirds of this generation identify as exclusively heterosexual.

Blackboards have never been dumb.