2013 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The holidays promulgate a plethora of politeness.
Police say the shooting occurred after the homeowner, a 48-year-old Washington Township man, retrieved the loaded Glock 21 handgun from a nightstand to show to his guests.
One more person who is just too damned stupid to own a firearm . . . .
Thinking Black Thoughts 2
Bruce Maiman tries to understand why persons subject themselves to shopping on the Friday after Thanksgiving and finds, as Ecclesiastes teaches us, that it’s all illusion.
A nugget:
There ya go: The orgy of greed vs. the serenity of family*!
It probably doesn’t pay to tell these people that the best deals don’t even happen on Black Friday. The Wall Street Journal found that nearly one-third of last year’s Black Friday bargains being advertised had been available previously at lower prices.
But as one analyst explained, “People associate Black Friday with good prices, and that eliminates the need to check price.”
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*Methinks that dependeth on the family.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to your elders.
(I trust that the gun nut is happy that he’s fulfilled his Wyatt Earp fantasy and demonstrated his capacity for courtesy.)
Afterthought:
The more stories of this sort that I see, the more I am convinced that many gun nuts have one trait in common.
They are frightened little men.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Bring up children politely.
He’s accused of pointing the gun at the children and firing off a shot inside the home. There were no injuries.
After all, children learn best by example.
Facebook Frolics 0
The internet is a public pool, and the FBI wants to go fishing in it:
Details at the link. Here’s the thumbnail:
The Feds raided a wrong house, looking for someone who had moved out two years before, frightening and humiliating the current residents. (The FBI, it would seem, is incapable of determining who lives where when. Maybe they need to talk with the NSA. Or possibly public records.)
The residents have now sued.
Now the FBI, as might any bureaucracy, is looking for some way out from under, natch, by smearing the victims.
One Shop Stop 0
Strange.
Put Down that Cell Phone and Back Away. Keep Your Hands Where I Can See Them. 0
Reg Henry counsels selfie-restraint. A nugget:
But that wasn’t about the photography or the egotism; it was about the squeezing. Not the same thing at all.
Do read the rest.
On the rare times that I see myself in a web cam, cell phone, or tablet pointed at my face, I think, “What a stupid looking pose. Don’t. Just don’t.”
And I listen to me.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
More news from the confluence of guns and stupid:
According to WXII, deputies believe that 27-year-old William Monroe Simmons’ daughter was in a playroom unattended when the other 3-year-old shot her with a .22-caliber rifle that was left in the room.
. . . more evidence that an intelligence test should be required for owning firearms.
We had guns in the house when I grew up. They were always out of reach of children and unloaded, with the ammunition stored elsewhere, as anyone with enough smarts to own them would be sure to do.