Friday Open Thread
Downside: this article from The Guardian , with infographic, of the mass shootings in this country over the last two years. If this doesn't chill you, then how about this. Yesterday the U.S. Senate voted down an amendment that would have kept guns from people on the U.S. terrorism watchlist and an amendment to expand background checks for online gun sales and gun shows. American exceptionalism indeed. Upside: a new girl-empowerment/self-acceptance/self-love group called I Am That Girl has started up nationally, with a chapter here in Seattle. I Am That Girl is a movement inspiring girls to love, express, and be exactly who they are. The Friends of the Seattle Public Library is having their first ever Children's Book Sale, Sunday, December 6th from 1-4 pm at the Ballard Branch Meeting Room. Most books will be between $2-4. Bring your own bag. Taylor Swift donated $50,000 to the Seattle Symphony and some of the donation will go towards music education fo...