May, 2015 archive
The Stetson, Updated 0
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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to your friends.
The stupid. It burns.
The Internet Is a Public Place 0
Buried deep in a longer story about Twitter’s trading travails (the stock is down a bit) is this nugget (emphasis added):
Facebook has so much data on its users, “you could actually target a premium credit card to a businessman you know is traveling all the time,” said Bryan Wiener, chairman of 360i, a digital marketing agency that works with brands like Capital One, NBCUniversal, Spotify, Oreo and Oscar Mayer.
In other words, Twitter needs to up its spying game to up its stock price.
Story via my local rag, print edition.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
“A 16 year old male was duck hunting, and while hunting a firearm was discharged. As a result of that he is now unfortunately deceased.”
“Was discharged” by whom, precisely?
The intellectual dishonesty of reportage on “accidental” gun deaths is stunning.
The “Me” Generation 0
It’s not who you think they are.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Just another day in NRA Paradise . . . .
SAPD said the boy was somehow able to get a hold of a handgun and was shot in the upper body. SAPD did not identify the type of handgun.
Chris-Crossed 0
Chris Christie, responsible fiscal:
All told, New Jersey taxpayers have spent about $10 million on lawyers working for Christie, state Democrats running a parallel investigation and individual state employees whose legal costs are covered by the Attorney General’s Office.
More fiscal responsibility at the link.
License To Kill 0
In Maine, there is an effort to lower the minimum hunting age from 10 to eight. In the Bangor Daily News, Don Loprieno explains that the effort is not about the joys of communing with nature in the northwoods wilderness, nor about putting dinner on the table or learning to live off the land.
It’s all about the Benjamins.
Read the rest.
Your Tax Dollars at Work 0
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
The Fallacy of “Clinton Derangement Syndrome” 0
There is no such thing.
There is only “Republican Derangement Syndrome.”
If Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene were Democratic President and First Lady, Republicans would react to them precisely as they reacted to the Clintons, and, currently, to the Obamas.