August, 2016 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is a family value.
Lebron-Rivera says his wife had his gun when he got out of the shower, and he did not recall inserting a magazine before they started playing with it. Officers found Rodriguez dead at the scene.
The Reno Speech 0
Here is Hillary Clinton’s Reno speech in which she sliced and diced Donald Trump. You can read a transcript at TPM.
Via Delaware Liberal.
There Are None So Blind as Those Who Will Not Look 0
Jodi Melamed writes in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel specifically about recent events in Milwaukee, but her column speak of any U. S. jurisdiction. A nugget:
Why is it so hard for white Milwaukeeans (and white people in general) to recognize segregation, mass incarceration, failing schools and joblessness as the inevitable outcome of our decisions? How can we fail to see that such “problems” will inevitably come to pass when we remove ourselves and our tax dollars to white enclaves, decide to foster a prison industry rather than demand government responsibility for job creation, and stop caring about “other” people’s children?
Picklegate 0
This one’s a dilly. Jimmy Kimmel slices to the root clausens. You might say he knows the sour, as he’s climbed the Mt. Olive. His response is vlassic.
Watch him gherkin Alex Jones around.
Elsewhere, Bob and Chez earn their bread and butter.
Video via Raw Story.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Play with politeness.
A 6-year-old child is expected to recover after accidentally shooting himself Thursday morning.
The child was playing with a firearm in a Lawrence residence in the 500 block of Wisconsin Street, when the weapon discharged, shooting him in the foot at 7:45 a.m.
The gunnularity continues to draw nigh: Yet another gun “discharges” itself all on its ownsome . . . .
Rebranding. It’s a Thing. 0
There is nothing new or even alternative about the “alt-right.”
It’s the same old right, only with new sheets.
Childhood’s End 0
No, not the science fiction story. This:
They had already gone through parts of a book – front cover, back cover, spine – as they sat outside on the grass in Santa Monica. People walked by with their dogs. One floated past on a hoverboard.
The children, ranging in age from 3½ to 5, were engaged in more serious pursuits. They were at KinderPrep, a $1,000, weeklong boot camp designed to prepare them for the rigors of kindergarten.
Words fail me.
Snared by the Snaring Economy 0
She pulled over to check that she had not forgotten her prescription and she got shared.
. . . she heard the car door behind her open.
A young woman was already seating herself in the back of Sue Ellen’s sedan and a young man was about to open the rear door on the passenger side.
“I think you have the wrong car,” she said – pleasantly, I’m sure. That’s the kind of person Sue Ellen is.
“Oh, then you’re not our Uber driver?” the young woman asked.
We are a society of stupid.
Original Spin 0
Via Rants from the Rookery.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Shorter Dick Polman: The corporate media will go absurd lengths to maintain its pretense that “both sides.”
Also, too.
