October, 2014 archive
Greybeard 0
I’m so old I can remember when the University of North Carolina was a respected institution of higher education.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Somewhat better:
More surprising than the improved numbers is that Bloomberg’s experts got it right. Think I’ll run out and buy that lottery ticket today.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is next to cleanliness.
Witnesses state that Hambaugh was sitting in the kitchen, preparing to clean his handgun.
When Hambaugh attempted to disassemble the gun a round had inadvertently been left in the handgun.
As he attempted to remove the slide, the bullet discharged.
It struck the inside of Hambaugh’s left thigh, traveled through the thigh, and after exiting struck the (nine-month-old–ed.) child in the head.
Note how “he had negligently left a round” morphs into “a round had inadvertently been left,” as gun nuts are never responsible for what they do because they have Second Amendment rights–just ask them.
If you read such reports regularly, you will see this pattern: Gun nuts who negligently inadvertently injure or kill others always do so in the passive voice.
The stupid, it burns.
Fetishists on Parade 0
The ammosexuals were out in force at our recent City Council Meeting (link complete with picture of one wannabe Wyatt’s personal Real-Big-Man enhancement device).
“Give Me a Sign” 2
Words fail me.
“Addicted to Fear,” One More Time 0
Reg Henry wonders at the Republican One Note Samba:
And now it is Ebola’s turn.
Because frightened persons stop thinking . . .
Read the rest.
Parental Football Impairment Syndrome 0
The kids may be all right, but the parents are another story.
And, courtesy of my brother, here’s another story of Parental Football Impairment Syndrome.
Yet, some wonder why, by the time they get to big-time football, some players think they are exempt from law and morality . . . .
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite in school.
More guns will no doubt prevent incidents like this in the future.
Parsing the Panic 0
Dr. Dan Gottlieb speaks with Dr. Priscilla Ward and Dr. Cindy Dell Clark about the dynamics of fear. The first part of the show considers why Americans are panicking over ebola, but don’t get flu shots. Here’s a bit from the webpage:
The audio is at the link. I think you will find the show well worth a listen.
I do think that the discussion did not give sufficient weight to one factor: the racism and bigotry that provides a base line to the ebola melody from the wingnut Wurlitzer.
The segment ends at about the 34 minute mark; there’s a short begathon break at the 20 minute mark.
Shaken 0
Sportswriter extraordinaire Bob Molinaro remembers the San Francisco earthquake of 1989. He was there. A nugget:
Then there came a stranger sound – like 62,000 people taking a collective deep breath – before the room began violently shaking. The lights went out as the shaking continued – for a total of 17 seconds, we would learn.
As this was happening, a feeling of helplessness began in my knees and sent me to the floor. I may have tried to crawl under a table. I remember thinking that I hope the TVs attached to the walls don’t come down.
At the time, my then-in-laws lived in the Bay Area and my father-in-law’s route home included the double-decker freeway that collapsed on itself. He happened to work late that evening.
One Flue over the Cuckoo’s Nest 0
More stuff you can’t make up.
She was clearly not related to Santa Claus.
Digital Rights and Digital Wrongs 0
Bob Cesca tells of his experiences fighting those who were Palin pilin’ on his “fair use” of some video clips.
“Boys Will Be Boys” 0
And that’s not a good thing.
Boys who will be boys think with the small head.
Honest to Pete, you can’t make this stuff up. If you can’t tell the difference between your work computer and your personal computer, you deserve to be punished for stupid.
