2018 archive
I Needed a Break 0
‘Nuf said.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness continues, and bags more stupid.
Now, about those IQ tests for hunting licenses . . . .
QOTD 0
Edmund Crispin:
(Upon the finding of the victim in a mystery story–ed.) She had been an attractive girl. But that “had been” was not a conventional gesture to the fact of death. It was an honest admission that without life the most beautiful body is an object of no interest. We are not bodies, thought Nigel, we are lives.
Crispin, Edmund (real name, Bruce Montgomery), The Case of the Gilded Fly (London: Bloomsbury, 12018), p. 80-81.
Articles of Faith 0
David Atkins calls the roll of what modern American conservatives must believe in order to be, well, modern conservatives. In the aggregate, assembled all in one place, the list is mind-blowing. Here’s a bit of it; the rest is at the link.
To be a modern conservative is to believe that thousands of desperate Central American migrants are being paid by George Soros–himself a symbol and often a substitute code word for Jews, also coded as “globalists” in mainstream Republican rhetoric–to come to the United States to vote illegally and disrupt the midterm elections.
To be a modern conservative is to believe in a ludicrous, grandiose conspiracy of tens of thousands of organizers, undocumented people and elections officials to implement voter impersonation fraud at scale.
QOTD 0
Judith Kelman:
Life, I tell my sons, is what happens when you are making other plans.
Kelman, Judith, “Introduction” to Rex Stout’s Curtains for Three (New York: Bantam, 1994), p. vi
Commonalities 0
Stanton E. Samenow, who has long experience studying offenders, high-lights the key commonalities among mass shooters in an article at Psychology Today Blogs. Here’s a nugget:
Follow the link for more.
Missing the Point 0
One of the purposes of the social contract is that persons can attend public events without needing armed guards.
Proximate Cause 0
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Face up to the politeness.
The injuries were non-life threatening but the teen was still taken to the hospital.
Police finished their investigation into the matter and determined that the gun was accidentally discharged.
I find the use of the passive voice somewhat noteworthy creepy.