2014 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Demonstrate your politeness to others so that they may emulate your courteous behavior.
Flaunting your male bits, real or artificial, in public seldom yields a positive outcome.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
A special bonus dose of politeness, in which a question is answered (emphasis added):
Mr. Poremski offered his gun to her, which he had been carrying on his hip and previously said was unloaded, witnesses told police. She gripped the gun with two hands and pointed it at him, according to the complaint. The gun went off as he asked Ms. Munizza if she would be able to shoot someone standing in front of her that “could be a danger to her or her family.”
Mr. Poremski was pronounced dead at the scene with a gunshot wound to the head and neck at 4:25 a.m., the Allegheny County medical examiner’s office said.
Honest to Pete, the Three Stooges couldn’t make this stuff up.
Reason Googol I Am Done with Big-Time Football 0
Is there a bigger jerk than Dan Snyder?
Dragged Kicking and Starting into the World 2
All Janis Joplin wanted was a Mercedes-Benz . . . .
A Mountlake Terrace pair have raised $13,000 for what they say will go toward IVF treatments, surgery and six months of missed work.
Twenty-nine donors have contributed $2,785 to an Issaquah couple who hope to adopt a little boy from South Korea.
The commentary writes itself, so I’m not even going to start.
Conserving Nothing 0
Chris Honore marvels at the selfish mean-spiritedness that “conservatism” has become.
No excerpt or summary can do it justice. Just read it.
Race at to the Base
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Yes, indeedy-do, teabaggery is all about race.
Any Southerner could have explained that to you, except, natch, the ones who don’t want to admit it, even to themselves.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness produces a sighting.
Forget drivers’ license exams. How about hunting license exams?
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Jim Crow is back patrolling the voting booth, all dressed up in Sunday go-to-meeting clothes.
Fashion Foolishness 0
Bush League 0
Daniel Ruth thinks that Jeb Bush will run. A snippet:
Up on the dais are Texas Sen. Ted Cruz looking like a used shark salesman, grumpy New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie foaming at the mouth, Sen. Marco Rubio playing jacks, sanctimonious former Sen. Rick Santorum showing everyone his stigmata, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal handing out beignets, Texas Gov. Rick Perry waxing about how great it is to be in Hawaii, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee trying to raise the dead, and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan reciting Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged.
And thus Bush thinks to himself: “Holy cow, that’s not an assemblage of serious presidential candidates. It’s the campfire scene from Blazing Saddles . . . . Compared to these rubes I come off as Benjamin Disraeli meets the Founding Fathers. Yeah, I’m in.”
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness:
The story does not mention just what he confused her with.
QOTD 0
John Grigg:
Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible.
Afterthought:
With twenty-something-year-old whippersnappers daring to hawk “memoirs,” disagreeing with this is difficult.
Over the Top and through the Woods 0
Am I the only person who thinks Halloween jumped the shark a couple of decades ago?