All murders are senseless, but it's pretty much impossible to understand why a person would fatally shoot complete strangers -- including an innocent young teen -- who are just going about their day and living life. A 73-year-old Missouri man named Frazier Glenn Miller has been charged with premeditated first-degree murder for reportedly gunning down three people -- including 14-year-old Reat Griffin Underwood -- at a Jewish community center and a nearby Jewish assisted living facility just one day before Passover.

As stupid and senseless as it is, we have a good idea what probably motivated the killer and nothing could be sadder: he was reportedly a "raging anti-Semite" who founded a Ku Klux Klan organization and shouted, "Heil Hitler!" as he sat in the back of a police car after his arrest.

A 62-year-old man in Ohio has been ordered by a judge to stand on a street corner with a sign stating "I am a bully" and "I pick on children that are disabled" -- among other things. And when you hear the long list of disgusting actions that earned Edmond Avi this unusual punishment you will wonder if it is even enough.

Back in March, graham cracker makers Honey Maid revealed a campaign called This Is Wholesome featuring a same sex couple lovingly feeding their baby, an interracial family happily walking together, and a heavily tattooed mom hugging her child. People complained. This is NOT wholesome, some wrote. Disgusting, said others. The hate mail poured in and Honey Maid collected all of it.

They asked two artists to take all the negative comments and transform them into something beautiful. My heart began racing wondering just what it is that they would do. And what they did ended up making me cry and also restored my faith that if we embrace hate with love, we can prevail. You must see this response. It's truly beautiful.

Yesterday I learned of a school that banned a 9-year-old girl because she shaved her head in support of her friend who has cancer. The school told her she violated the dress code. In the news today is 8-year-old Sunnie Kahle who is being asked to dress more like a girl because the way she looks doesn't follow suit with the school's beliefs and she is confusing some of the other students.

And now I am completely disgusted.

Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., the founder of the infamous, vehemently anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church, has died at 84 years old. Nathan Phelps broke the news on his Facebook page on March 16 that his estranged father was "on the edge of death," and later, his daughter Margie Phelps informed The Associated Press that Phelps died around midnight on Wednesday, but didn't provide the cause of death or the condition that recently put him in hospice care.

While losing a loved one is never easy, the country's reaction to Phelps' passing is overwhelmingly dry-eyed. After all, this is a man who led a small Kansas congregation (made up almost entirely of his extended family) in some of the most hate-filled protests this country has seen in recent years, aimed at everything and everyone -- from AIDS victims to gay people to soldiers.

It seems like no matter how many times we ladies crash through the glass ceiling, there are always going to be people that wish we’d stayed home barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. Especially when it involves a woman in a still male-dominated profession.

Carey Steacy is a mom of two and a pilot for WestJet Airlines, and she recently received a very misogynistic note from “David” in seat 12E. “The cockpit of an airliner is no place for a woman,” began the shocking note, and it just went downhill from there.

Gay rights took one step back and then one step forward this week in Arizona, landing everyone pretty much in the same place. First Arizona legislators voted to give businesses the right to deny gay people service on religious grounds. I don't know why they thought it was worth anyone's time to go through all that trouble. But anyhoo! Thousands of outraged tweets, posts, interviews, and facepalms later, Governor Jan Brewer vetoed SB1062, aka The Embarrassing Money-Losing Anti-Gay Bill. Most of America breathed a sigh of relief.

As usual, people had a lot to say about this bill via Twitter. Here's some of the highlights ...

Dale Hansen, a 65-year-old sports anchor in Dallas, is making huge headlines this week after addressing the Michael Sam controversy in his "Hansen Unplugged: Celebrating Our Differences" segment Monday night. If you haven't been keeping up, Sam is "the best defensive player in college football's best conference" who bravely went on ESPN and came out as gay. So if he's drafted in the 2014 NFL Draft or signed by an NFL team as an undrafted free agent, he will become the first active openly gay player in NFL history. Cheers to that!

'Course he knows his path to that title won't be an easy one. It's already proven to set tongues wagging. Which drove Hansen to give an absolutely rousing, inspiring, kickass speech about Sam's predicament and what it says about American hypocrisy -- on and off the field.

Check it out ...