October, 2015 archive
Gunning for a Fight 0
Over at Northjersey-dot-com, Jonathan Zimmerman suggests the gunnuttery is really not about guns, that, instead, guns are proxy for something else (and, no, he doesn’t mean penises).
Just read it.
(Horrifying grammatical error corrected.)
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Bring up children with politeness.
A family member said the child was hit in the thumb.
Correlation Is Not Causation 0
Then, again . . . .
No Place To Hide 0
Support the EFF. Click the link on the sidebar, over there.——>
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Still not bad.
(snip)
The four-week average of claims, a less-volatile measure than the weekly figure, fell to 259,250 from 263,250 the week before.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits decreased by 37,000 in the week ended Oct. 17 to 2.14 million, the fewest since November 2000.
The really big news is that Bloomberg’s “experts” were in the ballpark. I think the last time that happened was sometime in the spring.
Leeching Off the Learned 0
. . . but the football team has a winning record.
Be Very Afraid 0
My latest issue of Playboy contains a warning from Canada:
You elected George H. W. Bush; we gave you Celine Dion.
You elected George W. Bush; we gave you Nickelback.
You elected George W. Bush; we gave you Justin Bieber.
Do not elect Donald Trump. You do not want to know what’s coming next.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Like Petri wine, politeness is handed down from father to son.
“Right now, all we know is that the child was left unattended and got a hold of the handgun,” said Acworth police officer Youlanda Leverette.
When officers arrived, they found the boy in his parents’ bedroom. His father told officers the gun had been in a holster on the bed when the boy apparently found it and pulled the trigger.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
James Klagge points out that symbols symbolize.
