- Green Eagle reviews right wing reaction to the latest Florida school shooting.
- nojo at Stinque posts contemporaneous twitter messages from a hidden student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High during the shooting.
- @bjork55 at Bjork Retort has the Republican universal legislative response checklist for mass murders.
- PZ Myers notes that Republican lawmakers are receiving what could become a flood of donations to help their most frequently introduced program to deal with gun violence.
- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass provides a program that will solve important financial problems in Kentucky, except for the one that blocks the program.
- Journalist Tommy Christopher reports the international reaction after a prominent Trump ally posts a racist attack on Prince Harry’s fiance, Meghan Markle.
- Frances Langum reacts as Trump’s EPA chief, Scott Pruitt, charges taxpayers for first class flights in order to avoid hearing taxpayers angry at the poor job he’s doing.
- Jonathan Bernstein suggests that Republicans reconsider the legacy of Dwight David Eisenhower.
- The Journal of Improbable Research reports on a flash fire caused by a new type of hand sanitizer.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post takes the coincidence of Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day to explain what Christianity means to him.
- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from the online magazine Science, explaining the secret ways experts deal with widely accepted “socially sanctioned beliefs.” Warning: you have to deal with one unverified assertion from bothsiderism (“at each end of the spectrum”). Apparently Science is not entirely immune to unverified, widely accepted, socially sanctioned beliefs.