I already admired former Congreswoman Gabrielle Giffords but she is officially my new hero:
I don’t cry very often but her guts and grace in speaking out so haltingly but eloquently made me cry a bloody river. What a broad. And her astronaut hubby is pretty awesome too.
For some odd reason, thinking about the Tucson shooting and its best known victim gave me an earworm. I know. I’m weird like that. It put Killer’s Eyes by the Kinks in my head. Ray Davies was inspired to write this haunting song after seeing Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981, on the news. Agca had creepy and disturbing eyes, just like Jared Loughner:
