2015 archive
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
The numbers aren’t bad, but Bloomberg still manages to find a negative spin.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Hey! Accidents happen.
The story does not say what happened, only that it was just one of those things, just one of those crazy things that happens in NRA Paradise.
Twits on Twitter 0
Yet another Q&A does not go as intended. Instead, it goes as anyone with half a brain would have expected.
Also, stupid anti-vaxxer twits who do not remember the pictures of children languishing in iron lungs before the polio vaccine was created.
Twits on Twitter 0
Very large twits.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
I got a dollar to a doughnut that these are not all isolated. No. Two dollars that at least half of them or more share a common motivation.
Burning black churches is part of our sacred Southern Heritage.
Ammosexual Attire 0
This is not a felicitous fashion choice; fetishistic, maybe, but hardly felicitous. The cops might think, with some justification, that you are asking for it.
The “Traditional Marriage” Con 0
Tony Norman investigates the scam.
Never mind that most religions once defined marriage in ways that would scandalize even the most tradition-bound American in 2015. You’d be hard-pressed to find a religious tradition that didn’t sanction polygamy, child brides and treating women as property whose market value was determined by a set dowry price, their potential fertility and the perception of how a marriage would help the groom’s social standing.
It’s true that the rituals accompanying marriage ceremonies were designed to encourage the perpetuation of the species, but historically they were also about reinforcing whatever the presiding economic order happened to be.
More traditions at the link.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
James Bond was “licensed to kill” in a fictional world that never existed.
Allow me to introduce you to those who would be “licensed to hate” in the real world that we all must share.
Afterthought:
My family has lived in Virginia since 1613; it has shared and participated in Virginia’s sins and in its virtues.
These persons make me ashamed to be a Virginian, for they would perpetuate Virginia’s greatest sin.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is a family affair.
Authorities said the 5-year-old got his hands on a .22 caliber revolver that was left loaded and unattended in a home.
Had the little girl had been packing, she would no doubt have been able to defend herself.