April, 2013 archive
Tribal Warfare 0
Eric Garland muses on what would the news look like if U. S. media covered domestic news the way they cover foreign news.
A snippet:
Brian McConkey, 27, a Christian fundamentalist militiaman living in the formerly occupied territory of Alabama, gunned down three men from an opposing tribe in the village square near Montgomery, the capitol, over a discussion that may have involved the rituals of the local football cult.
Please, oh please, do read the rest.
Via TWIB.
Classification 0
The Booman offers a taxonomy of the crazy.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
More Three-Card Monte 0
Thom explains “negative externalities.”
The Republican War on Science 0
Dick Destiny wrote this so I don’t have to.
Plus ca Change 0
How many persons know that the movie, Animal House, was based on Dartmouth College, an institution laden with tradition?
The twits on twitter celebrate the tradition.
Legacy, Bushie Style 0
The Booman reminds us that the Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie in Iraq rages on; follow the link:
Image via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
A little better, but still in the same ballpark:
(snip)
The four-week moving average of claims, a less-volatile measure, fell to 357,500 from 362,000.
The number of people continuing to collect jobless benefits fell by 93,000 to 3 million in the week ended April 13, the lowest since May 2008. The continuing claims figure does not include the number of workers receiving extended benefits under federal programs.
“You Have the Right to Remain Silent” 0
Much absolutely hysterically wrong wrongness about Miranda warnings has filled the news and the blogosphere since the suspect in the Boston bombings was apprehended.
David Harris, University of Pittsburgh law professor, cuts through the crap on Miranda warnings.
The Supreme Court ruling in the Miranda case is actually quite specific: Warnings are required only if the police question a suspect while he is in custody and the district attorney wants to use the answers to prove guilt. That’s all.
If you have been caught up in the miasma of Miranda meanderings, you really need to read the whole thing.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite on the way to the practice range.
Afterthought:
Honest to Pete, back when I took an NRA gun safety class in high school, in the olden days when the NRA was a hunter’s organization, before it became a lobbying group, lesson one was never transport a loaded gun.
Lesson two was unload guns before transporting them.
These people are nuts.
For all their worship of their rifled idols, they persist in treating them as toys, playing with them as if they were Barbie dolls of blued steel.
True Colors 0
The latest line, peddled on a conservative radio talk show: Democrats’ purpose in sponsoring the legislation — aimed at making undocumented college students eligible for state financial aid — was to make Republicans look racist.
Indeed.
Coals. Newcastle.
Vituperation Void 2
At SFGate, Mark Worfords wonders just whom we’re supposed to hate this week.
The Church of St. Browning Assembles 2
The Pennsylvania Gun Club assembles to profess their love of their lord. (Apparently, Jesus was all about instruments of death.)
Another woman held a sign: “Gun Control is False Hope; Jesus Christ is the True Hope.”
And thus we go from gun nut viagra to gun nut sacrament.
All together now:
Lift high the royal re-peat-ing gun and crown it Lord of all.
Expectations 0
Whenever I ride my bicycle, I remember this story. But it does not apply just to bicyclists.
When I was in high school, one of my fellow high-schoolers was in a collision.
He had a Honda 350 motorcycle back when Honda 350s were the cat’s meow and the bee’s knees.
He was driving up the highway, a wide open country highway, when a lady pulled out in front of him from a stop sign.
He collided with her and sprawled across the hood of her car. (Fortunately, he lived.)
The lady told the cops, “I looked both ways and I did not see a car.”
If you aren’t willing to see it, it doesn’t exist until it hits you full force.
And that is true not just on the highways.
