Summaries

1. Everyone -- and I do mean everyone -- needs to stop blowing stuff up. Period.

2. 9-year olds shouldn't shoot Uzis. 

3. Ebola is terrifying

4. ISIS/ISIL is terrifying

5. I rather like the idea that the police have bigger guns than the bad guys. I do wish they would use them more appropriately, however. 

6. I prefer my president to be deliberative about war -- even if that means the collective video-game curiosity of the citizenry isn't satisfied quite quickly enough. 

That's it.