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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Fill up on the politeness.
According to a LaGrange Police Department press release, the victim was filming Alaeza Carr, 22, playing with a handgun when it went off and struck the victim in the face sometime around 1 a.m.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Dick Polman skewers Donald Trump’s “red scare” tactics, in which anyone to the left of the far right is getting tagged a “socialist.”
Aside:
I suspect that Donald Trump has no idea what “socialism” is other than a great bogey word.
Inquiring Minds Don’t Want You To Know 0
Will Bunch tries to make sense of the Jeff Bezos-Saudi Arabia-National Inquirer-Donald Trump, Jr., connections.
Virginia Beach Drinking Liberally Thursday 0
Start your Valentine’s Day evening with us.
When: Thursday, February 14, 6 p. m.
Where:
Croc’s 19 Street Bistro
620 19th Street (Map)
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Stray Thought 0
Late in the evening and I’m craving a cup of coffee because one the characters in To Wake the Dead by John Dickson Carr (the master of the locked room mystery) is named “Melitta.”
I need better filters.
Mature Nation 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Steven Stosny suggests that, after almost two and a half centuries, the United States has finally entered the “terrible twos.”
Conspiraling into Madness 0
David and his guest take a deep dive into conspiracy theories and the conspiratorial world view.
Quick Dial Firefox Plugin 0
Ever since the Opera browser introduced its Speed Dial over a decade ago, I’ve been a fan of “speed dials.” If you haven’t used one, a “Speed Dial” enables you to put links to favorite websites in the “new tab” page of your browser. (I stopped using Opera when it went to the Dark Side.)
For a while I used Seamonkey, because, like the old Opera, it included an email client, an RSS reader, and a newsreader. I quite like Seamonkey, but, since the Seamonkey sync is broken and I use multiple computers, I now rely on Firefox as my default browser.
I recently stumbled over a “speed dial” for Firefox called “Quick Dial” which I quite like for two primary reasons: It will sync in a normal Firefox sync without your having to create some account on somewhereyouneverheardof.com, and it allows you to select a background image from your own images library.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness goes on.
The jury is still out as to whether it was his antlers or his little fluffy tail that led to the mistaken identity.
Aside:
Perhaps if he had had a gun, this wouldn’t have happen–oh, wait!