A teacher at Dalton High School in Georgia used his trusty handgun to shoot off a round in his classroom this morning after locking the classroom door to students.

If you are in desperate need of a tent or  a water bottle or a gadget chair or a trendy fashion accessory or whatnot, please go to Dick’s Sorting Goods or order online to thank them for getting some damn good sense.

As of yesterday, they will no longer sell assault weapons and today they issued this.  (Click here to see the big one.)

Maybe, just maybe, the tide is turning.

Business Insider had the best news of the year today.

Oh, I’d pay money to see that in person.

The only downside is that in a death match one side has to win.

Kushner had a very bad day yesterday.  Kelly is teetering on the edge over the Porter scandal and rumor has it that he’s not impressed with Ivanka’s intelligence.

And to add the spice to the chili, Trump isn’t happy with Jeff Sessions.  From this morning’s Twitter rampage —

Yeah, Sessions, how many times does Trump has to say that you’re not holding up your end of the cover-up?

Golly, the White House must be a great place to work!

I think trying to figure out what Mueller is doing requires tea leaves, a Magic 8 Ball, and Ouija board.

That said, there’s this.

The office of special counsel Robert Mueller has now proposed dropping charges against former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates, in what might be the strongest sign yet that Gates has given the investigation significant information related to its probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Gates, who served as Trump’s deputy campaign chairman during the 2016 presidential election, agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy against the United States and lying to federal investigators last week.

The only questions I have are (1) how long and how many indictments will it take to get Manafort to come apart like a $3 suitcase in a train station, or (2) Has Devin Nunes been sneaking over to Manafort’s house to deliver pinkie promises from Trump that he will grant Manafort a pardon?

Oh, well, it’s all just a WAG (Wild Butt Guess), but it’s fun to play WTF with the Trump inquiry.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Okay, so the man who delivered word of Hillary’s stolen emails to the Trump campaign has gone missing.  His name is Joseph Mifsud and since last November even his fiancé can’t find him.

Mifsud told Papadopoulos that the Russians had thousands of emails from Democrats in April 2016, two months before the Democrats themselves were aware that their computer system had been hacked. Mifsud told Papadopoulos he’d learned of the emails during a trip to Russia, but who told him is unknown.

Nobody is gonna find that guy.  Either he’s buried under the Kremlin or Trump Tower.

However, this is not the weirdest disappearance.  If you’re not following the Timothy Cunningham disappearance, you’re missing a Stephen King novel.  Cunningham left work sick two weeks ago from his job at the Center for Disease Control.  He had access to all manner of biological germs and he went gone, leaving some strange messages behind.

That’s creepy.

Okay, so this is a little complicated but it certainly will spark your prurient interests.

There’s a Republican congressional seat in Arizona that is consistently red.  Personally, I think it’s red because they are embarrassed.  The former congressvarmint in the seat was Trent Franks, who had to resign because he’s kinky as a 100 foot garden hose.

So, they have to hold a special election skidding on the mess Franks left behind.

There’s two top people vying for the GOP nomination and the one who’s leading (and got endorsed by Ted Cruz!) with just a week to go before election day has a small problem.  Steamy and topless text messages with his legislative aide. And then he’s dumb enough to say he “did not have any inappropriate relationships with this woman.”  Holy Bill Clinton Cow.  All he changed was “that woman” to “this woman.” That phrase has not generally been associated with truth.

So, this guy is leading in the polling and about 75% of voters have already voted by mail. He’s hoping to lay low until election night and still be the GOP nominee.  So, on election night, check out Steve Montenegro in Arizona and see if he’s doing the dirty with Ted Cruz.

Now here’s the other fun part.  The candidate who is second in the polling is Debbie Lesko.  Trump’s campaign manager in Arizona has just accused her of a money laundering scheme with her campaign funds.

Yes, there is a Democratic nominee.  The district voted for Trump with a 21 point margin.  But hell, Trump won Alabama by 27 points and that didn’t help Roy Moore one little bit.

You know, this morning Thelma said that the Republicans may have the Russians working for them, but we have the Sex and Money Devil working for us.

That’s something to think about.