As was posted above, someone else was shot today - and my local news made it sound like it was in Ferguson, too. Glad to hear from IL that it wasn't. That said, I have two things to say. The first is that I am taking a 24 hour break from this thread. I find the topic very upsetting and honestly, by this point everyone pretty much knows where I stand on these issues.

The second thing is that I have a date Friday night due to my stance of Ferguson - can you believe it? For the first time in more years than I care to admit to in public I'm actually going on a date. Still stunned by that one. How it ties into Ferguson is after my banquet shift, a bunch of us were waiting for the light rail - and this guy I have worked with before went up to me and started talking about Ferguson and asked my take on it. Apparently I said what he wanted to hear as he asked me out but I was 100% honest. So we'll see how this goes. Very bizarre to me that the tragedy in Ferguson could lead to such a thing happening, I honestly thought that part of my life was over and had accepted it. Rob