2015 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite in the presence of the dropsies:
Cock-and-Bullies 0
Pennsylvania township goes full-on ammosexual (warning: rudeness).
Dustbiters 0
Another one bites the dust. This casino is now out of business:
My father was banker. He had integrity, and, in his days, so too did banks; he was, indeed, the straightest shooter I have ever known.
He has passed, and so too has the integrity of banking. I suspect that, were he still with us, he would identify himself simply as an agronomist, as that was his field of study.
He would have been ashamed of what “banking” has become.
A League that They Own 0
Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire, sums up the Little League kerfuffle:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Allow children the opportunity to be polite.
Both Sides Not 0
Driftglass dissects the unified Confederacy of Denial. A nugget (emphasis added):
He is writing it for the several thousand members of the Beltway Club who still go to bed at night a little worried that someday, somehow, someone might show up and demand that they be publicly brought to book for the shit they said and did back when it looked like the Age of Dubya would last forever and so nothing they said, no matter how loathsome or disgraceful or false would ever come back to haunt them.
But the Age of Dubya did come crashing down. And ever since then our Beltway Media — led by Bush Regime cheerleaders and dead-enders like David Brooks — has adopted a strategy of locking arms in a unified Confederacy of Denial.
Do please follow the link and rest the whole thing. It’s worth the three minutes.
Stray Thought 0
Whoever came up with the idea for those little change pockets on the inside of the front pockets of men’s trousers, which serve only to make change inaccessible to the wearer, deserves swift and merciless retribution.
The Galt and the Lamers 0
Froma Harrop considers the intellectual contortions of Rand Paul’s stance(s) on vaccination. A snippet:
A real libertarian wanting his party’s presidential nomination has only two choices:
- Come clean and acknowledge the cost side of your beliefs. If you think parents have the right not to vaccinate their children, agree that more Americans might come down with preventable diseases as a result. Provocative, perhaps, but honest.
- If you don’t want that controversy tied around your neck, say that you have changed your mind on vaccinations and now hold that they should be required. Not totally honest but at least coherent.
Put into practice, libertarianism can make a mess. If parents have the right to endanger others by not getting their children immunized, why can’t individuals decide whether they’re too drunk to drive?
The core belief of Libertarianism is summed up in the phrase, “because I want to, dammit.”
I Get Mail 0
H/T Susan for the pic.
