Up Up and Away But We Can't Escape

Still another active shooter situation, this time in El Paso, Texas.  The heartbreak of our country continued.

One wishes you could just go up, up in a way in a beautiful balloon, and escape this national nightmare.  Of course, it's not possible.

In Binghamton, New York, it is time for the 35th Spiedie Fest and Balloon Rally.

For today, I am bringing back my guest photographer to show you a series of balloon pictures taken a few miles from Binghamton the other day, before the rally began, near a village called Port Crane.

She has a much better camera than I do (mine is an iPhone and it has its limitations) and was even able to get this close up.

Hopefully, I'll be able to get some balloon launch pictures later today or tomorrow.

But for now, still another community goes into mourning.

And, in one more slightly unbelievable twist, when I went on NBC news online to get the latest report on El Paso, I was presented with a video that started with a commercial for Cologuard (a home noninvasive test for colon cancer.) 

I'll agree with one thing.  Gun violence is a cancer that we can't seem to find the treatment for.