2015 archive
Theatre of the Absurdities 0
Shaun Mullen reviews the show. A snippet:
Read the rest. It’s worth it.
QOTD 0
John Nuntsman, Jr.:
If we can’t find cuts in the defense budget, we’re not looking carefully enough.
Twits on Twitter 0
Yet another racist twit.
No Huddled Masses Need Apply 0
Jim Wright looks at the current kerfuffle over immigration and pulls no punches. Here’s a bit of one of his typically long and scathing posts (emphasis added):
Republicans say the government is broken, and they’re going to keep on breaking it until they’re proven right.
Read the whole thing.
None Dare Call It Terrorism 0
In the Charlotte Observer, Glenda Gilmore, an ex-pat North Carolinian now living in Connecticut, comments on the case of Craig Hicks, who killed three Muslim students for reasons that remain unclear.* A snippet:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The polite are always loaded.
Now, about those IQ tests for gun ownersh–oh, never mind.
Aside:
I have cleaned many guns in my time; the raw unvarnished stupidity of cleaning a loaded gun leaves me flat speechless.
Snowy Sunrise 0
Sunrise on a snowy morning at my brother’s place on Virginia’s Northern Neck.
Mean Girls 0
I didn’t even know that high school team dance competitions were a thing.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The polite practice family togetherness:
The child did not survive.
Yet another gun nut too stupid to unload a gun before cleaning it.
Light Bloggery 0
The area is crushed under two or three inches of snow. Crushed, I say (just ask the telly vision).
There are rumors of a burgeoning black market in bread and milk, as thawing is not expected to begin until noon. Even our morning paper was an hour late.
Civilization as we know it is doomed absurd.
I’m taking it easy on a snow day.
(Typo corrected.)
Q. Where’s a Good Place for Breakfast? 0
A. Try the new Rand Paul waffle house.
QOTD 0
Frederick William Robertson:
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy: hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
