January, 2016 archive
How Stuff Works, Bundy Bund Dept. 0
Update, after This Was Drafted*:
It appears that the Feds were using an enforcement technique known as “Give ‘Em Enough Rope . . . .”
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*You didn’t think I do all this in real time, did you?
I write a bunch of stuff, then I go off and do other stuff. Then I write stuff. It’s the Great Cycle of Drivel.
Twits on Twitter 0
Occasionally I toy with the notion of signing up for Twitter, then I think, “Heavens, no. Why invite more stupid into my life?”
The Rich Are Different from You and Me 0
They don’t have to pay their fair share.
The Pervy Party 0
Honest to Pete, you can’t make this stuff up.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness seals friendships.
The victim — whose name has not been released — suffered a single gunshot wound to the leg, Murphree said. . . .
Witnesses told police the suspect was holding the gun when it fired and hit the victim, Murphree said. She noted the suspect and victim know each other.
Tales of the Bundy Bund 0
The Bundy allies are rallying in the only way they know.
The occupiers “are threatening the state, they are threatening the refuge, and they are threatening the life of someone we love in a very real way,” Klonoski said.
Flint-Hearted, Reprise 0
After listing what he considers the five most idiotic things said about the poisoning of Flint, Michigan, (follow the link for the list), Dick Polman has the unmitigated gall to wonder about priorities:
Care to guess the salary of Jim Harbaugh, the University of Michigan football coach? What he pulls down, over two years, in public money? $14 million.
Cheaters Never Almost Never Occasionally Don’t Prosper
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I find it gratifying that the New England eleven were unable to devise a method of cheating their way into to this year’s Big Game.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another great moment in politeness:
Pearl River County deputies responding to the shooting on Mississippi 43 about 3:15 p.m. found the store owner and his son dead in the store, Chief Deputy Shane Tucker said.
The owner’s wife was working at the store when two customers, a man and his son, entered to pick up a firearm that had been repaired.
“There was some contention about a $25 fee,” Tucker said.
The police are still trying to figure who did what in what order, but it’s clear that politeness triumphed.
