One of the things I love best about living in Washington DC is the ability to just take a short walk down to the Mall and see the latest museum exhibition. My favorite ones (so far) were the Alexander Calder and Toulouse Lautrec exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art and the Jules Feiffer one at the Library of Congress.
Calder exhibition flyer
Lautrec exhibition flyer
Feiffer exhibition flyer
I know that people’s attentions will be on the government shutdown and horrible shooting yesterday, but there’s a very worthwhile march happening today in Washington, DC to highlight the plight of elephants. Ivory belongs to the elephants.
Another mass shooting in the United States. If I sound weary, it’s because I am. Although it’s early and details about the shooter are still emerging, the common ingredients are all there: easy access to guns, previous gun-related arrests, the powerful gun lobby, mental illness, and violent video games. Here’s a graphic reflecting who commits these mass shootings from Mother Jones:
I guess they forgot to include a graphic showing the male/female ratio.