Well, another week, another school shooting:  I tried to summon the rage that I felt after the Sandy Hook and Marjorie Stoneman Douglas massacres.  Instead all I felt was hopeless.   I was going to write another screed about shameless, gutless GOP politicians, but really, it’s been said before, and there is little point in belaboring …

I grew up in a large Catholic family, seven kids, spread in age roughly evenly over a twelve-year period, so figure a new sibling arriving every year and a half.  Catholic parents took “be fruitful and multiply” seriously during the Baby Boom years.  My dad’s job paid enough so that, with careful spending, hand-me-down clothes, …