2018 archive
Suffer the Children 0
The Trump administration has created a predators’ paradise by ripping children from their parents and putting them on the counters of old Walmarts.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another responsible gun owner . . .
The woman said she gave the weapon to a man named Randall Cannon, who lives in the house where the accident happened, and he took it with him to an unknown location, deputies said.
. . . and yet another gun that fires itself.
QOTD 0
John Fugelsang:
I was caring for a toddler while my country was electing one.
In an Interview with Bob Cesca. Free download, login may be required.
Russian Impulses 0
Shaun Mullen sums up this week in the Kremlin Kowtowing.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Expose your children to politeness at an early age.
Parker Stevens had been handling the gun inside a closet in his parents’ second-floor bedroom when it fired, the Office of Chief Medical Examiner said. State police detectives said the Mossberg shotgun had eight shells in the gun’s magazine tube, and the boy apparently racked one of the shells into the chamber before he fired the gun.
The Rally Crasher 0
(Typo fixed.)
Farcical Recognition 0
Remember, much of the tech stuff you see on your telly vision is not forensic science, but rather forensic science fiction. In real life, when it doesn’t work as expected, the repercussions can be devastating, if not fatal, to the mis-recognized. For example:
More accurately, the 28 members of Congress were falsely matched with mugshots from the 25,000 publicly-available arrest photos (the ACLU did not specify where it got the photos). (Though Lewis was, in fact, arrested during civil rights protests in the 1960s, the ACLU’s blog post on the test implied these photos were not part of their test.)
Eleven of the falsely identified Congresspeople were people of color, 40 percent of the erroneous matches, despite people of color making up less than 30 percent of Congress.
Much more at the link.