NOT AN ACCIDENT.

I hate the word "accident". Mostly it's used to excuse stupidity, carelessness, and even malice. This week 12 people, including four children, died in a Bronx apartment building fire. The blaze was started by a 3-year-old boy playing with a stove and was described by Mayor de Blasio as a "horrible, tragic accident". It was not an accident. Some adult was not watching that child, someone was not preventing him from "playing" with a deadly device. Someone (or someones) is responsible for this tragic non-accident and should be arrested and tried and punished.  I wonder what affect this will have on that 3-year-old when he's older and learns his action killed a dozen people, and who will he blame?

I love this tweet. So true. Let's add amoral, dishonest, unfeeling, 
hypocritical, overfed, and unAmerican.

Since you've been gone,
I still get up at dawn.
I still have coffee in the yard,
Even when it rains.
I still suffer all the same
 old aches and pains
 I did before —
Maybe even more.
Since you've been gone,
Life goes on.