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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Hoist a drink to politeness.
The report goes on to say that “the gun went off,” implying that it fired itself all on its ownsome.
Speaking all on my ownsome, I’ve not yet met a gun that pulled its own damn trigger.
“Negligent” =/ “Accidental.”
Aside:
It would be quite refreshing were news media to stop treating gun nut negligence as some aspect of inadvertence.
How To Deal with a Threatened Trumpling 0
Spocko offers a case study.
Twits on Twitter 0
PoliticalProf anticipates the purity twits.
Missing the Message 0
Jamelle Bouie visits the Oklahoma City National Memorial, which commemorates the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and suggests that it ignores context.
It’s All about the Benjamins 0
Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire, in case you still wonder why I’ve lost interest in college sports (emphasis in the original):
I think that the phrase, “intercollegiate business partners,” is quite telling.
Suffer the Children 0
Seth wonders just what is a “fake asylum seeker.”
QOTD 0
Robert Goldsborough, in the voice of Audra Pierce:
I find it amazing how eager some people are to deliver news that might be disturbing to the recipient.
Goldsborough, Robert, Battered Badge (New York: Mysterious Press/Open Road, 2018), p. 128.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Schoolyard Trumpling.
(snip)
The post threatened an ethnic cleansing in the form of a school shooting and told white students at CHS to stay home. The person who posted the threat claimed to be a Charlottesville student.
The message boards 4chan and 8chan have been frequented by white supremacists. The sites were banned in New Zealand in the wake of last week’s mosque shootings for hosting video of the massacre.
A Tune for the Times 0
Say hello to Devin Nunes’ Cow (warning: language).
