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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Resolve automotive differences politely.
The owner of the parked car ran away from the scene but was located by APD officers about three blocks away near the intersection of Montview Boulevard and Galena Street.
The story goes on to report that both men are in the hospital and at least one of them will be charged.
Vaccine Nation 0
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Kevin McDermott highlights the hypocrisy:
Follow the link for the rest.
Out of the Mouths of Babes , , , , 0
In a letter to the editor of my local rag, a fourth grader nails it. Here’s a bit:
Follow the link for the entire letter (it’s the last one on the page).
Aside:
When I was in the fourth grade, I had neither the understanding nor the writing ability to–oh, never mind.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Suffer the children . . . .
Moments later, several people heard a loud gunshot and saw the car filled up with smoke, according to the incident report.
One of the children, who was under 10 years old, found the backpack in the car with the gun inside. They accidentally shot themselves in the arm and another child, also under 10 years old, in the hand.
QOTD 0
Frank Thornton in the voice of Mr. Entwhistle:
The value of money is always relative. It’s the need that counts.
As the Twig Is Bent . . . 0
. . . and, boy! are these twigs bent.
Aside:
Back when I was a young ‘um going to school during the first years of gradual desegregation in my white high school (one black student the first year, eleven the next year, and so on), we knew better than to do stuff like this in public.
Geeking Out 0
Updating a VirtualBox VM of Bohdi Linux on Ubuntu MATE under the Fluxbox window manager. The wallpapers on both are from my collection.
Aside:
Updating a Linux install is nowhere nearly so annoying as updating Windows. Linux updates are much quicker, and reboots are necessary only when the kernel has been updated, so as to start utilizing the new kernel. And you can reboot at your convenience.
Almost all Linux distros have a GUI application for managing software installs and updates. I prefer the command line because I learned very early in my DOS 3.2 days that the command line is always faster (provided, of course, that you know the commands).
Windows requires a reboot after every update so as to update the Windows registry, which is a kludge of unimaginable proportions.