Rachel Writes

This article was originally published on a now defunct progressive blog.  The repost tonight is in honor of the release of the documentary Newtown which chronicles the 2012 shootings at Sandy Hook that took the lives of 20 children and 6 school teachers.  Since I first penned the original post, Pennsylvania has taken steps to close the loophole in their own state so that their citizens cannot make use of Florida gun permit laws to purchase and carry weapons that their own state would not want them to be able to access. Florida Gun Laws and Pennsylvania Politics…The “ Florida Loophole” Written by R.S. Pienta on 22 September 2010 — It may be Florida ’s Gun Law Loophole but right now it is Pennsylvania ’s problem and it is that state’s law that has to be changed. Via what has been dubbed the “Florida Loophole”, Pennsylvanians with revoked concealed-carry gun permits re-arm themselves with relatively quick-and-easy permission from the Florida Department of Agricult...

Manufacturers fell over themselves rushing hoverboards to market in time for the 2015 holiday season. Small wonder the contraptions have turned out to be a fire hazard. http://www.wired.com/2015/12/why-hoverboards-keep-exploding/ Really, 2015 was a bittersweet year for this Age of Aquarius baby turned forty-something.   From now on, the time in the DeLorean will always be in the past. 2015 was the year we found out what happened since we left Luke, Leia, and Han partying with the Ewoks back on Endor in 1983. The thrill of seeing characters I first met in 1977 back on the big screen after so many years was tempered by watching Han Solo's death.  Sure, I get all the parallels with Obi Wan Kenobi's death in the original 1977 movie but we did not spend years with Ben Kenobi the way we did with Han! And what surprises do we have to look forward to in 2016? For starters, there will be another Star Wars prequel. This franchise is starting to feel like the Marvel universe....