2014 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to family and friends.
Somogyi retrieved a .45-caliber handgun and fired six to seven bullets at a wall in his bedroom, according to the police statement. The bullets passed through the wall and went through a front window of a house across the street, striking a 39-year-old man in the wrist.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Family togetherness.
According to the story, the father is “distraught.” The coroner is wrong, though; this was not a “tragedy.” This was negligence.
And in more news of the polite.
Antidisestablishmentarianism 0
Afterthought:
The last time I wrote “antidisestablishmentarianism,” I was in school and I had to write it 500 times.
With a little practice, you can hold four pencils in your hand . . . .
Facebook Frolics 0
By their status updates shall ye know them.
It’s Not What You Know . . . 0
. . . it’s who you know.
The Second Deconstruction 0
When I was a young ‘un, back in the olden days, there were not cops in schools. Now, they are a fixture and they show that the school to prison pipeline is a real thing. Let the ACLU explain:
This extreme approach – which includes the overly strict enforcement of zero-tolerance policies, the use of suspension and expulsion at younger and younger ages, and increasingly turning students over to law enforcement – has resulted in a skyrocketing number of students receiving harsh punishments. Much of the increase is the result of heightened concerns over school violence, even though research shows there is no safer place for kids than in school. Another factor is the persistent misperception that students of color are inherently more dangerous.
When kindergärtners are routinely suspended, the system is broken.
Crash 0
On my way to DL tonight, I was caught in a traffic jam. TV news crews were on hand, with cute ladies and trim men talking into microphones in front of disheveled camera men (and they were all men).
It was the backwash of this.
Now I know why those TV news crews were there. It was not your routine “driver runs into crepe myrtle tree in the median strip” accident.
Afterthought:
I am not a fan of crepe myrtle trees.
When I was in college, one of my summer jobs was cutting grass along the highways for the Department of Highways. When you are cutting grass with a sickle bar mounted on a tractor, crepe myrtles, though they may be pretty, can be quite annoying.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.