Obvious but stillā¦
Most mornings I read nola.com, this morning I got treated to this wonderful sentence:
āLouisiana remained the nationās most murderous state for a 31st consecutive year.ā
Woohoo
I think that calls for a tshirt, ala the ābad things happen in Phillyā trendā¦
Stay safe!
I wish the goverment had the guts to nationalize the forest industry.
This sucks.
Nooooooo!
Hereās another one - this time itās a man. Apparently, heās been making racist, misogynistic, and transphobic remarks 
:
What the actual fuck?
Iām glad they got fired for this. Now we need to start firing them for killing people.
Well, given that they were policing Maine, they likely didnāt realize what coon meant when used as a pejorative.
Oh, they know. And despite the fact that they were beating porcupines to death (probably because theyāre slow, gentle creatures who are easily caught) and not raccoons, the story did have an unsavory racist feel to it. Like one of them exclaiming, āI got him!ā after beating one poor critter to death. Justā¦so many levels of āfuck today.ā
If theyāre going to use cop psychology, they really should keep an eye on these budding serial killers.
I think itās part of the recruitment strategy. 
My cousin and his husband have been having pretty serious substance abuse problems for the last few years, since my uncle died suddenly from cancer.
We donāt know the extent of it, but the husband has had a long history of seizures that the doctors canāt seem to diagnose, but which seem to get better when he has been committed for a few days after his periodic psychotic breaks. You can probably do the math; the rest of the family has. Even my cousin at one point had started having seizures.
Lately, they both were on the mend. Had jobs, less health issues. Managing to hold down those jobs, and seemed to be trending in the right direction.
I got the call about 11 last night that the husband had passed. They were napping before my cousin was going to his night shift job, and he awoke to his husband being gone, speculated to be a seizure where he ended up face-down in a pillow or something.
Itās hard. I tried to help them out, when they couldnāt hold a job I paid one month of their rent based on an honest conversation where my cousin cops to what was going on, and I tell him that we love them and are worried, and they need to get their shit togetherābut we canāt enable them. They paid back that money and as I said seemed like they were doing better. Now my cousin is shatteredāagaināand I wonder if Iāll have to say goodbye to him too soon.
Iām very sorry for your and your cousinās loss. I truly hope that he will make it through.
eta: looked back and saw a missing ārā
Itās so damned hard to walk the line between help and enabling. Everyone ends up suffering.
I hope your cousin pulls through. His loss must be devastating. Please also take care of yourself and your other family members too. My sympathies. 
Prosecute. They will sometimes get fired, but they need to be put on trial for killing people.
