Over 20 shootings today, including two two-year olds, a 19-month-old killed at a backyard picnic, a 10-year-old killed near a childcare center, and a man who fired an assault rifle at a cop during a traffic stop. We wonder if he grew up watching the “Coolest Gun Movies” so lovingly listed by American Rifleman, flagship publication of the NRA, which after Newtown blasted Hollywood as “a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells, and sows, violence against its own people” - and which now praises blood-soaked spectacles that "take us back to simpler times, when dreaming of saving the day got us through."

“Isn’t fantasizing about killing people as a way to get your kicks really the filthiest form of pornography?" - NRA's LaPierre

What next. To the horror of many snooty traditional gardener types, the U.K.'s Royal Horticultural Society has for the first time in a century allowed garden gnomes - long viewed as the ultimate in tacky anti-classism - to appear at the fancy-pants Chelsea Flower Show. The (slight) bow to democratization was made to help raise money for a school garden program. But still. On the off-chance you want to know more, there's a whole weird gnome world (zombie gnomes! gnome penises!) out there.

In the time-honored tradition of setting abstract and often wrong-headed partisan politics above the needs of real people, Oklahoma's GOP Sen. Tom Coburn, a longtime climate change skeptic and foe of federal aid, announced right after the devastating tornadoes hit his state that any disaster relief should be offset with other budget cuts, no doubt preferably affecting poor people. So when he tweeted that his "thoughts and prayers" were with the suffering victims, they weren't having any of it.

From posts on his Facebook page: "You are just a bad person...You are failing miserably as a senator and a human being. Fucking piece of garbage....To hell with you sir, and enjoy the weather...You are the enemy - you disgust us all."

Update: Coburn's office has blasted his "crass" critics for "playing disaster aid politics." He knows whereof he speaks.