{"id":59741,"date":"2018-05-24T20:08:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T00:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=59741"},"modified":"2018-05-24T20:08:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T00:08:22","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-may-23rd-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=59741","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018&#8230;but before we begin, as the <em>WSJ<\/em>\u00a0reports&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><a style=\"color: #339966;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/starbucks-says-drug-use-sleeping-unacceptable-as-it-clarifies-guest-policy-1526918854?mod=djemalertNEWS\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Starbucks Says Drug Use, Sleeping Unacceptable as It Clarifies Guest Policy<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2aqoh9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59670\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2aqoh9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2aqoh9.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2aqoh9-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Surprise, surprise!\u00a0 As Laura Ingraham observed when Howie Schultz first announced his insane response to what he <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>should<\/em><\/span> have blown off as a set-up and non-issue&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vWW0rbiZ4MM?start=15\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yeah, good luck with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, writing at his <em>Morning Jolt<\/em>, Jim Geraghty wonders&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Who Wants a Summit with North Korea More?<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/kimjongun_trumpdonald_030918getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59661\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/kimjongun_trumpdonald_030918getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/kimjongun_trumpdonald_030918getty.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/kimjongun_trumpdonald_030918getty-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>This<\/em><\/span> is why it\u2019s\u00a0difficult to follow an impulsive leader.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><em>President Trump, increasingly concerned that his summit meeting in Singapore next month with North Korea\u2019s leader <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">could turn into a political embarrassment<\/span>, has begun pressing his aides and allies about whether he should take the risk of proceeding with a historic meeting that he had leapt into accepting, according to administration and foreign officials.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Mr. Trump was both surprised and angered by a statement issued on Wednesday by the North\u2019s chief nuclear negotiator, who declared that the country would never trade away its nuclear weapons capability in exchange for economic aid, administration officials said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">North Korea\u2019s shift <em>was<\/em> unpleasant and out-of-the-blue, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but not really out of character<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>No doubt<\/em><\/span> they would threaten to walk away from the table the moment they thought they could wring a concession out of the United States.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">And they\u2019re<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/trump-bows-to-south-korea-desire-to-cancel-planned-joint-training-exercise-2018-05-19\">already getting concessions<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><em>A planned training exercise involving U.S. B-52 bombers and South Korean planes was scrapped earlier this week after the South Korean government expressed concerns that it could generate tensions before a planned summit meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, according to U.S. officials.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Who\u2019s got leverage <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>now<\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;re gonna go out on a limb and say it&#8217;s the guy who <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>didn&#8217;t<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Trump-administration-releases-North-Korea-summit-coin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59663\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Trump-administration-releases-North-Korea-summit-coin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Trump-administration-releases-North-Korea-summit-coin.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Trump-administration-releases-North-Korea-summit-coin-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;already advertise the minting of this commemorative coin!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up, another item from Geraghty&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Morning Jolt<\/em>\u00a0which poses a different question:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/would-you-ever-agree-to-be-a-teenager-again\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">Would You Ever Agree to Be a Teenager Again<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">?<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/child-being-bullied-fb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59664\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/child-being-bullied-fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/child-being-bullied-fb.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/child-being-bullied-fb-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/o-BULLYING-TEEN-facebook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59666\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/o-BULLYING-TEEN-facebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/o-BULLYING-TEEN-facebook.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/o-BULLYING-TEEN-facebook-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/o-BULLIES-facebook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59665\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/o-BULLIES-facebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/o-BULLIES-facebook.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/o-BULLIES-facebook-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Actually, despite having been bullied, demeaned and brokenhearted&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in a heartbeat<\/span>!!!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>We\u2019re going to do this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>again<\/em><\/span>, huh? <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Another<\/em><\/span> debate about gun control after a mass shooting?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>We <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>still<\/em><\/span> have to debate <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>gun control<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>even after<\/em><\/span> the shooter<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/texas\/article\/Explosives-in-Santa-Fe-shooting-were-functional-12929376.php?ipid=happening\">built functioning bombs<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>?<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><em>After he used weapons that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">no<\/span> federal official, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">including<\/span> Dianne Feinstein,\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>or even the idiotic <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/a76JMYH6KvQ\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\">Eric Swalwell<\/span><\/a><\/em>)<\/span><em>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">wants to prohibit<\/span><\/em>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>I notice that school shooters <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>rarely<\/em><\/span> have lived lives of terrible abuse and deprivation, <em>the sort of experiences that make you think, \u201coh, good heavens, well, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">no wonder<\/span> that person finally snapped<\/em>.\u201d <span style=\"color: #333399;\">When their tales are told, the portraits of their life reveal mundane problems \u2014 loneliness, bullying, social isolation and alienation; an attraction to a girl that isn\u2019t reciprocated.<\/span> Those are all <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>deeply<\/em><\/span> unpleasant experiences, <em>but they\u2019re <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">also extremely common among teenagers<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Raise your hand if you were never bullied.<\/span> Raise your hand if you never felt like an outsider or a loser. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Raise your hand if you\u2019ve never been rejected or turned down by someone you liked.<\/span> Yeah, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I didn\u2019t think so<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The social conditions of teenagers \u2014 and let\u2019s face it, <em>we\u2019re talking about teenage <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">boys<\/span><\/em> \u2014 haven\u2019t changed\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span>\u00a0much from when today\u2019s adults were that age.<\/strong><\/span> Schoolwork is still hard, and as Will Smith sang, \u201cparents just don\u2019t understand.\u201d (Think about it, as a working adult, you\u2019re probably expected to be proficient and knowledgeable about one area of life, from nine-ish to five-ish. A high school student is supposed to be proficient and knowledgeable about math, science, history, or social studies; English or literature; a foreign language; possibly art; possibly music; good enough in gym class \u2014 changing in front of their peers in the locker room! And\u00a0<em>then<\/em>\u00a0they have homework. And then there\u2019s the SATs. The more that teachers, parents, and guidance counselors tell you that this one test doesn\u2019t determine your future&#8230;the more you start to suspect this one test determines your future.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>If the cool crowd is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>a minority<\/em><\/span>, then <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the<\/em> <em>majority<\/em><\/span> will feel <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>left out<\/em><\/span> of that cool crowd.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Like I said, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all of us<\/em><\/span> have been there in some time of teenage (or post-teenage) depression, frustration, ennui, alienation, and loneliness. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Most<\/span> of us <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">got through<\/span> those tough times <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">without feeling that the best, or only remaining course, was to lash out through violence, culminating in self-destruction<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Maybe today\u2019s teenage world, with social media, increases the venues for ostracization.<\/span> Maybe we have more undiagnosed mental illness (although today\u2019s schools are more attuned to that than ever).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Family breakdown is probably a factor; out of the 27 deadliest mass shootings in the United States,<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2018\/02\/27-deadliest-mass-shooters-26-one-thing-common\/\">26 of the perpetrators were not raised by their biological fathers<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>But this by itself <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>doesn\u2019t explain it<\/em><\/span>, <em>because <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a lot<\/span> of boys lack a father in the picture <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and don\u2019t turn out to be mass shooters<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>What <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>has changed<\/em><\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>defines<\/em><\/span> the post-Columbine world, <em>is that a mass shooting is now <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the quickest way<\/span> to get <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not merely<\/span> your high school, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">your community<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">perhaps the entire country<\/span>\u00a0wondering about <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">what was going through the mind\u00a0of an otherwise anonymous teenager<\/span><\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>It <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>may<\/em><\/span> be that <em>we\u2019ve created the expectation among <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">certain<\/span> teenage boys that when they feel sufficiently alienated and isolated and rejected and angry about the world, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">this<\/span> is what an angry teenage boy is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">supposed<\/span> to do<\/em>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Yes, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">you<\/span> either end up dead or in jail for the rest of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">your<\/span> life, but \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">everyone<\/span>\u201d will remember your name for the rest of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">their<\/span> lives<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9rcIJIWqYmo?start=201\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Unfortunately for the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/a76JMYH6KvQ\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Eric Swalwells<\/em><\/span><\/a> of the world, writing at <em>Townhall.com<\/em>, Guy Benson offers a&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/guybenson\/2018\/05\/21\/senior-democrat-actually-gun-control-couldnt-have-stopped-the-texas-school-shooting-n2482581\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">Hard Reality: No Mainstream Gun Control Law Would Have Stopped the Texas High School Horror<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-10-at-Sunday-July-10-12.52-PM-1-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59660\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-10-at-Sunday-July-10-12.52-PM-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-10-at-Sunday-July-10-12.52-PM-1-1.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-10-at-Sunday-July-10-12.52-PM-1-1-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Virginia Democratic Senator Mark Warner told CNN&#8217;s\u00a0<em>State of the Union\u00a0<\/em>that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/2018\/05\/20\/top-senate-dem-admits-no-gun-control-law-would-have-stopped-santa-fe-massacre\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>he doesn&#8217;t think<\/em><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>You can say <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">that<\/span> again!<\/em>)<\/span> &#8220;there&#8217;s a single piece of legislation&#8221; that could have prevented last week&#8217;s horrible killing at a Texas high school, adding that a more holistic &#8220;series of actions&#8221; are needed. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">His other nod to reality was acknowledging, after being prodded by host Jake Tapper, that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Democrats failed to act on gun control when they controlled all three elected levers of power in Washington, DC during the Obama years<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> &#8220;<em>Perhaps, in retrospect, more should have been done<\/em>,&#8221; he said, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>amid various evasions and excuses<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s this\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>absolutely must-read<\/em><\/span>\u00a0piece from\u00a0<em>The New Yorker<\/em>, in which Malcolm Gladwell details the evolution of&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"ArticleHeader__hed___GPB7e\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/10\/19\/thresholds-of-violence\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Thresholds of Violence<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader__dek___2rbDs\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/10\/19\/thresholds-of-violence\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\">How school shootings catch on<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #800000;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/columbine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59659\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/columbine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/columbine.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/columbine-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">In the day of Eric Harris, we could try to console ourselves with the thought that there was nothing we could do, that no law or intervention or restrictions on guns could make a difference in the face of someone so evil.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>But the riot has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">now<\/span> engulfed the boys who <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">were once content to play with chemistry sets in the basement<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The problem <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em> <em>not<\/em><\/span> that there is an endless supply of deeply disturbed young men who are willing to contemplate horrific acts.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It\u2019s worse<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">It\u2019s that young men <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no longer need to be deeply disturbed<\/em><em> to contemplate horrific acts<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>And as Gladwell recounts, it&#8217;s a problem <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no<\/em><\/span> gun control measures can <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>legislate<\/em><\/span> away.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us to our next item, also from <em>NRO<\/em>, in which Clay Routledge writes about one symptom of the disease Malcolm Gladwell diagnoses above:<\/strong><\/p>\n<header class=\"article-header article-header--full\" data-component=\"articleHeader\">\n<div class=\"article-header__inner\">\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/05\/americans-pets-too-attached\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\">Are Americans Too Attached to Their Pets<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #800000;\">?<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/05\/americans-pets-too-attached\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008080; text-decoration: underline;\">Young adults in particular may be bonding with animals at the expense of vital human relationships<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #008080;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/o-DOG-facebook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59658\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/o-DOG-facebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/o-DOG-facebook.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/o-DOG-facebook-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\">&#8220;L<\/span>ike many Americans, I\u2019m a big fan of dogs. <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">As my wife and I prepare to become empty-nesters, I\u2019ve noticed that we\u2019re spending more time obsessing over our family pooch, perhaps because\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he<\/em><\/span>\u00a0actually <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>still wants<\/em><\/span> to hang out with us.<\/span> In recent years, however, our society\u2019s relationship with pets appears to have changed in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unhealthy<\/em><\/span> ways.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The real question, then, is why some turn to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>animals<\/em><\/span> instead of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>other people<\/em><\/span> to fulfill basic psychological needs. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">Though there might be many reasons, I\u2019d like to focus on two specific possibilities, both of which implicate the individualistic nature of contemporary American culture.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>First, if young adults feel more socially isolated or disconnected, they may view pets as a safer form of social connection.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Research indicates that loneliness and ostracism trigger a defensive cognitive and emotional response in which people become motivated to avoid further social harm.<\/strong><\/span> This can reduce their inclination to take social risks, to put themselves out there in a way that makes them more socially vulnerable. Their social defensiveness may in turn make pets an especially attractive source of companionship. (Indeed, as previously noted, loneliness is associated with a tendency to view pets as having human-like characteristics and pets can help reduce feelings of loneliness.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Second, in our individualistic society, pets may be appealing to some because they lack the agency of humans <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and thus require less compromise and sacrifice<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">Other <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>people<\/em><\/span> have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>their own<\/em><\/span> goals, opinions, and interests.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Human<\/em><\/span> relationships thus <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>require negotiation<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> With a quick Google search, you can find a number of \u201cthink pieces\u201d arguing that dogs are better companions than humans. <strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">The unifying and ultimately self-centered theme of many of these pieces is that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>dogs<\/em><\/span> will shower you with positive affirmation <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no matter what<\/em><\/span>, while demanding <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>little in return<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">They allow you to gain <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>some<\/em><\/span> of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>benefits<\/em><\/span> of companionship and caregiving, without <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>most<\/em><\/span> of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>costs<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<\/span><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">As our good friend Neil McShane recently observed, if you put your do<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">g<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> your wife\/girlfriend in the trunk for two hours, when you opened it, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">which<\/span> would be happy to see you?<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>We shouldn\u2019t be surprised that Americans are increasingly interested in the types of social connections that allow them to feel both safe <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span> special. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">In our individualistic culture, we often privilege <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>self-esteem<\/em><\/span> over characteristics such as <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>responsibility, loyalty, duty, and sacrifice<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>We also coddle children and teens to protect them from the social risks and emotional pains of life<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>But <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">doing so<\/span> is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not without its costs<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> By teaching our kids to focus primarily on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>their own<\/em><\/span> happiness, we may be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>failing to convey<\/em><\/span> that life\u2019s <em>most meaning-providing and socially-fulfilling goals are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">often<\/span> stressful, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">can<\/span> make us temporarily unhappy, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and require concession<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>People find the greatest personal meaning and are best able to cope with the life stresses that threaten meaning when they view the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">individual self<\/span> as <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">subordinate<\/span> to a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">broader social self<\/span> \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a marriage, a family, a religious community<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">Pets are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>great<\/em> <em>additions<\/em><\/span> to our social world, but they are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>poor substitutes<\/em><\/span> for the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>messier<\/em><\/span> human relationships <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that make life worth living<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The <em>biggest<\/em> aspect of the problem?\u00a0 Not even <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>close<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 But certainly <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>indicative<\/em><\/span><em> of a<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>detachment<\/em><\/span> <em>the anonymity afforded by social media <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">has fed like gas poured on an open fire<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On\u00a0<em>The Lighter Side<\/em>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/rocket-man-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/rocket-man-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/rocket-man-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/rocket-man-1-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bg052218dAPC20180521104635.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bg052218dAPC20180521104635.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bg052218dAPC20180521104635.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bg052218dAPC20180521104635-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/payn_c15765720180522120100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59684\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/payn_c15765720180522120100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/payn_c15765720180522120100.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/payn_c15765720180522120100-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Obamagate-600-LI20180521020228.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59656\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Obamagate-600-LI20180521020228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Obamagate-600-LI20180521020228.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Obamagate-600-LI20180521020228-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/lb180522c20180521084222.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59685\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/lb180522c20180521084222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/lb180522c20180521084222.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/lb180522c20180521084222-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Image-5-21-18-at-7.53-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59653\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Image-5-21-18-at-7.53-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Image-5-21-18-at-7.53-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Image-5-21-18-at-7.53-AM-300x216.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-1-7.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59650\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-1-7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-1-7.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-1-7-300x279.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-2-7.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59651\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-2-7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-2-7.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-2-7-300x256.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-12.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59652\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-12.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-12.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-12-300x233.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a day with a cross between another sordid story straight from <em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Crime Blotter<\/span><\/em> and <span style=\"color: #008080;\">&#8220;<em>MSM Bias&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">WHAT<\/span> Bias?!?<\/em>&#8220;<\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">&#8216;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/crime\/bs-md-co-officer-killed-20180522-story.html\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #008080;\">Your client is a one-man crime wave&#8217;: Teen charged in Baltimore County officer&#8217;s death has lengthy juvenile record<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dawnta-Harris-and-Office-Amy-Caprio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59698\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dawnta-Harris-and-Office-Amy-Caprio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dawnta-Harris-and-Office-Amy-Caprio.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dawnta-Harris-and-Office-Amy-Caprio-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;The West Baltimore teen\u2019s crime spree began in December, prosecutors say, and, over the subsequent months, he stole four cars, skipped court dates and escaped from a juvenile center. <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>When a\u00a0Baltimore County police\u00a0officer confronted him Monday, 16-year-old Dawnta Harris ducked down and accelerated a stolen Jeep, running over Officer Amy Caprio as she opened fire, prosecutors say.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Caprio, 29, became the first Baltimore County policewoman killed in the line of duty. Condolences poured in Tuesday from across Maryland. Grieving officers crowded a courtroom in Towson for the first appearance of her alleged killer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>In a yellow jumpsuit, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>slight<\/em><\/span> teen appeared by video from the county jail for a bail review beside his public defender<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note the reporting: &#8220;the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>slight<\/em><\/span> teen&#8221;; who was nonetheless strong enough to push down the accelerator of a stolen Jeep and snuff the life out an even &#8220;slighter&#8221; police officer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Funny, we live some 35 minutes from the scene of this crime, and have been following it since it went down.\u00a0 Up until the perps were apprehended, police <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>never offered a physical description<\/em><\/span>, i.e., the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>skin color<\/em><\/span>, of either the suspects <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>or<\/em><\/span> the police officer.\u00a0 Any question had the races been reversed, their relative pallor would have been prominently pronounced?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018&#8230;but before we begin, as the WSJ\u00a0reports&#8230; Starbucks Says Drug Use, Sleeping Unacceptable as It Clarifies Guest Policy &nbsp; Surprise, surprise!\u00a0 As Laura Ingraham observed when Howie Schultz first announced his insane response to what he should have blown off as a set-up and non-issue&#8230; \ufeff\ufeff Yeah, good luck with that! 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