Sandra Bland. How scared she must have been. How brave she was. The printout of her arrest show so clearly the ludicrousness, the complete and utter wrongness of her arrest, her death.

Meanwhile, in Sweden… one discussion is never ending. The decision of the Swedish Academy to officially remove the old, tasteless, needless word negerboll from the official Swedish dictionary is causing a minor uproar. The word was used to mean a Swedish pastry like chocolate desert/candy. It is a round, chocolatey tasty desert that is especially popular with kids. Of course its name must be changed. Naturally. Needless to say. One would presume any modern being would agree. But not so. Puny and insipid and self-centered, obnoxious, even in the face of reason, even in response to patient explanations.

Back in the USA. 204 days in 2015 have passed so far. 204 shootings have taken place. When will Americans see the light? President Obama is frustrated by his inability to attain (any sane level) gun control: “It is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws. Even in the face of repeated mass killings.”

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