On the Entirely Reasonable Notion That Mental Illness Plus Violent Video Games Does Not Necessarily Equal Mass Shooting

With nuance often the first victim of any heated national conversation, the current debate on gun control sometimes threatens to turn an enormously complex, emotional, multi-dimensional issue into a simplistic blame game. From one who knows, a reminder that it's unhelpful to conflate mental illness and/or blood-spattered video games - as grotesque as some of us find them - with killing people.

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What the...?!?

Dennis Kucinich has signed on as a regular contributor to Fox News , a presumably "belly of the beast" move that may ultimately make political sense after we think on it a while. Still: weird.

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The People's Inauguration

Progressive Democrats of America, the “grassroots PAC" made up of left-leaning Democrats and labor, anti-war and environmental activists, is holding its Progressive Central, a gathering of legislators and activists, on January 19. PDA aims to keep progressive demands on the agenda in Congress, from universal single-payer healthcare to ending our wars.

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