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Comment on Portland: Home of the Fresh Mouth by Mary Miraglia

Mary Miraglia — Thu, 23 May 2013 01:13:50 +0000

That puts Portland in good company with New Jersey as one of the most backward places in the nation when it comes to preventative dental health. You may know that there is natural flouride in the water of many parts of Indiana, so there is plenty of data available to disprove the conspiracy theorists’ notions of a plot to conquer our liberty via sound teeth.

Comment on Thank the Lord… by Mary Miraglia

Mary Miraglia — Wed, 22 May 2013 01:57:05 +0000

Somewhere along the line, I think we must be related.

Comment on Not Carl Anderson Park… by Mary Miraglia

Mary Miraglia — Wed, 22 May 2013 01:54:39 +0000

My, my Mr. Robinson, you are mighty entertaining tonight! But, as a member of the neighborhood, you need to do something about that lax landscape maintenance.

Comment on Thank the Lord… by Stephen Robinson

Stephen Robinson — Wed, 22 May 2013 01:51:55 +0000

You’re right! The 24/7 news cycle doesn’t allow for just STOPPING. Newspapers were a battle for column inches. TV is endless. And the results are not surprising.

Comment on Thank the Lord… by Mary Miraglia

Mary Miraglia — Wed, 22 May 2013 01:47:07 +0000

I have another journalist friend who maintains Wolf can wring every drop of drama out of a dramatic moment.

Comment on Thank the Lord… by Mary Miraglia

Mary Miraglia — Wed, 22 May 2013 01:46:07 +0000

So, Stephen — who are you madder at, Wolf Blitzer or god? I’ve been mad at god for a long, long, very long time, at least 50 years, but I kind of think I’m madder at Wolf Blitzer because god minds his own business most of the time, whatever that is, but Wolf is just so IN YOUR FUCKING FACE! The trouble with those 24/7 news types is, they just never know when to shut the fuck up. When I was a cub reporter and learning to write feature stories — meaning I was hired with absolutely no experience because it was a food editor and I had a home economics degree — I told my editor “I don’t know how to end this story.” She said “Just stop.” So I did, and I maintain that is very good advice. Wolf, for god’s sake, when you have nothing intelligent to say, just shut up.

Comment on Good Guys with Guns… by Mary Miraglia

Mary Miraglia — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:01:15 +0000

And that;s another subject entirely. To drive a car you must pass a driver’s test, register the vehicle, and insure it. Why gun owners don’t have to have a background check, a proficiency exam, liability insurance, and demonstrate where their locked gun storage device is located and how they use it, is beyond reason. It’s a huge disconnect in practicality and logic. Then you have people walking round, like the young man in our town who was shot by a friend as a young teen, still walking around these many years later with a bullet in his brain that has the potential to kill him. An “accident” that was entirely preventable.

Comment on Good Guys with Guns… by Stephen Robinson

Stephen Robinson — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:02:15 +0000

Very good point, Mary. There was discussion of requiring “gun insurance,” given the increased risks involved with private gun ownership. I often thought that gun safety advocates should propose “death of a thousand cuts” type restrictions similar to what anti-abortionists do.

Comment on Now time for “False Equivalency Theatre”… by Mary Miraglia

Mary Miraglia — Tue, 21 May 2013 02:06:54 +0000

I surely am interested in the definition of “loaded lesbian.”

Comment on Good Guys with Guns… by Mary Miraglia

Mary Miraglia — Tue, 21 May 2013 02:04:27 +0000

I think a lot of these “good guys with guns” are not really good at all. Consider this: every weapon used in a crime was legal at one time; surely we have to realize criminals are not just randomly coming across these weapons — someone who has them legally is selling / giving / trafficking these guns to the crooks. This is a big, big deficiency in prosecution in even the most strict of gun control states, including New Jersey. Enforcement of people funneling weapons to criminals is almost unheard of, and way overdue.