Saturday, October 17, 2015
Wednesday, October 07, 2015
Cinephile
I carry all of these things around in my wallet because you never know when you might have time to pop into a theater and catch a good movie.*
*To be honest, I haven't actually been inside a movie theater in weeks! Thanks to the projector we now have at home, it has to be a pretty big deal for us to go out to watch something. But I will be taking my class to see the new Steve Jobs movie on Monday, so there's that at least.
The Woolworth Building
It's kind of awesome I get to work here. 
(I only work on the second floor, so I don't quite get the view.)
Friday, October 02, 2015
Trying to look on the bright side
After reading about the most recent mass shooting in Oregon and a discussion in the New Yorker about the aftermath of the Charleston, NC shootings, I am pretty much ready to cry my tired eyes out this Friday afternoon. For me, gun control is really one of the most frustrating and troubling problems we are facing in this country right now. The main thought I have is: Will we EVER enact laws that start to put a real limit on the ability of Americans to buy guns?!
This article helped me to feel a little better. It was written three years ago, in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, and in it, Adam Gopnik argues that 1. It is very easy to significantly reduce the number of gun-related deaths by simply making guns just a little harder to obtain, and 2. we, as a country, will probably enact legislation to do just that before too much time has passed.
Gopnik writes, "It's always hard to summon up political will for change, no matter how beneficial the change may obviously be. Summoning the political will to make automobiles safe was difficult; so was summoning the political will to limit and then effectively ban cigarettes from public places. At some point, we will become a gun-safe, and then a gun-sane, and finally a gun-free society. It's closer than you think."
I really, really, really hope he's right.
This article helped me to feel a little better. It was written three years ago, in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, and in it, Adam Gopnik argues that 1. It is very easy to significantly reduce the number of gun-related deaths by simply making guns just a little harder to obtain, and 2. we, as a country, will probably enact legislation to do just that before too much time has passed.
Gopnik writes, "It's always hard to summon up political will for change, no matter how beneficial the change may obviously be. Summoning the political will to make automobiles safe was difficult; so was summoning the political will to limit and then effectively ban cigarettes from public places. At some point, we will become a gun-safe, and then a gun-sane, and finally a gun-free society. It's closer than you think."
I really, really, really hope he's right.
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