2018 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
. . . and a polite society is a clean society.
Police in the small Berkshire Country town of Monterey say the 70-year-old man was at a table in his home Wednesday afternoon cleaning the firearm when it discharged.
Pigeon Holes 0
Will Bunch attempts a taxonomy of Democrats.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to your romantic partners.
(snip)
The man gave a brief statement at the scene, saying that the couple had just gotten back to his apartment from dinner. He always has a pistol with him, and he thought he cleared the rounds from it when they returned. He said he didn’t realize it was loaded when it went off, and the bullet hit his girlfriend.
He didn’t know the gun was loaded (sigh).
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Thom and Greg Palast discuss recent events in the Republican gut-out-the-vote effort.
Geeking Out 0
Watching cartoons with Xine under the Fluxbox window manager with the peak_ocean theme on Debian Stretch.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
The Sound of Silence 0
At the Bangor Daily News, Eric Shepherd finds an object lesson in the reaction to the allegations of assault against Brett Kavanaugh; follow the link for details.
Here’s a snippet, somewhat aside from the object lesson mentioned above, but nevertheless powerful:
Do please read the rest.
Aside:
I was a teen in the 60s. It wasn’t normal then, either.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Well-oiled politeness.
Beltran allegedly began waiving around the gun to the tune of music playing in the car. The woman in the front saw Beltran waiving the gun and told him to put it away, prosecutors said.
Suddenly, the gun went off and at least one bullet struck Sosa in the torso.
According to the story, this happened after a day of drinking. The victim died and, in a somewhat unusual development, charges have been preferred.
Check Your Local Listings 0
If you are a mystery buff, as I am, and like your mysteries delivered with a soupcon of comedy, you can’t do better than Carter. It gets better with every episode.
Private Eyes is also a fun watch.