This Cannot Continue
If you head over to the freeway, five minutes in traffic, and head north, the next town you come to is Everett. The town after that is Marysville. It feels like a long way, but that is because traffic into and through Everett is obnoxious.
And, look, it's not just that it's so damn close. But this is the second time this week for me.
This was my Wednesday:
Say what?
But ... but ... but ....
My daughter was there, damn it!
You have got to be fucking kidding me.
This can't be happening.
This just can't ....
Please.
What the hell is going on?
How is this happening?
Please?
If you head over to the freeway, five minutes in traffic, and head north, the next town you come to is Everett. The town after that is Marysville. It feels like a long way, but that is because traffic into and through Everett is obnoxious.
In the most recent press briefing, Marysville Police PIO Cmdr. Robb Lamoureaux was not prepared to officially confirm whether the other person shot and killed was a student or staff member.
Today's school shooting comes just four months after a school shooting at a high school in Troutdale, Oregon. At the time, that was the 74th school shooting in the United States since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., suggesting today’s gun violence was the 75th such shooting.
(Benen)
Today's school shooting comes just four months after a school shooting at a high school in Troutdale, Oregon. At the time, that was the 74th school shooting in the United States since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., suggesting today’s gun violence was the 75th such shooting.
(Benen)
And, look, it's not just that it's so damn close. But this is the second time this week for me.
This was my Wednesday:
Who the fuck calls in a bomb threat at GeekGirlCon? Have you seen the kind of people who go to GeekGirlCon? There are little girls in pink tutus and superhero masks, babies dressed as Doctor Who villains, and an Introvert Alley—yes, an entire room for people who do not like crowds and loud noises. It's that kind of place. Or it was, until some mouth-breather threatened to blow it all up rather than let someone speak about her YouTube videos. Who does that? The patient old people that serve as the Convention Center staff had to check our bags for guns. The hashtag filled with spammy, angry tweets, nonsensical but filled with hate. It was bullshit. I can't wait to go back next year, just to show those twisted assholes that they can't win. They've already lost.
("I, Anonymous")
("I, Anonymous")
Say what?
I didn’t feel safe going into GeekGirlCon. Hours earlier, Game developer Brianna Wu had tweeted about the threats she'd received, about calling the police, about sleeping somewhere else.
Just thinking about it made it hard to sleep. The next day, I was almost late to game critic Anita Sarkeesian’s opening panel, and was one of the last to be let in. There had been a bomb threat, of course, though we wouldn’t know about it until afterwards. They searched our bags.
(Dieker)
Just thinking about it made it hard to sleep. The next day, I was almost late to game critic Anita Sarkeesian’s opening panel, and was one of the last to be let in. There had been a bomb threat, of course, though we wouldn’t know about it until afterwards. They searched our bags.
(Dieker)
But ... but ... but ....
My daughter was there, damn it!
You have got to be fucking kidding me.
This can't be happening.
This just can't ....
Please.
What the hell is going on?
How is this happening?
Please?