2016 archive
QOTD 0
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:
Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
That Unsupported Feeling 0
Writing at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, James Causey talks of being while black in the United States. A snippet:
Too many black men are being shot and killed by police, and this is scary to me because as a black man I know that if I’m shot by police or one of my black friends is shot by police, there is a good chance that nothing will happen to that officer. This is not to say all officers are bad. But I can be stopped by an officer who may be a little jumpy one day and I can reach for my wallet and he can say he thought I was going for a gun — and my life is over.
Read it.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Celebrate politely.
Pellets hit the 18-year-old’s cheek, eye and arm. Relatives said his condition was improving but that he is now blind in one eye.
The Killing Fields 0
Via Job’s Anger.
Afterthought:
I can’t make this question go away:
Why are persons surprised that someone might decide, however illogically, insanely, and unjustly, to respond in kind?
Let’s Have a Range War 0
Someone is trying to steal our land.
Dallas 0
I got nothing. I don’t yet know enough to form an opinion and my first thought is something I’d later regret voicing.
My motto is, “Opinion-based snark: the snarkiest kind.”
I will, nevertheless, commend Thoreau’s remarks to your attention.
Still on the subject of Dallas, Leonard Pitts, Jr., sees parallels with the 1960s.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
If you are polite, ignorance can be an excuse (emphasis added).
Gregory County Sheriff Tim Drey said he has not finished speaking with the alleged shooter but believes the incident was accidental, saying the man who owned the handgun was “just somebody who didn’t know how to handle a firearm.”
The story goes on to say that a decision about possible charges has yet to be made, but never mind it was an accident.
In related news, Funny or Die has obtained the NRA’s Guide to Guys with Guns.
Facebook Frolics (Udated) 0
Now you see it, now you don’t.
Addendum, Later That Same Day:
From El Reg:
Multiple sources with knowledge of the event have tonight confirmed to The Register that someone – highly suspected to be the city’s police – used her phone to remove her recording from public view shortly after the shooting. This was no technical glitch.
More at the link.
Stray Question 0
Why do the manufacturers of sneakers (“trainers” in the UK) default to using laces long enough to moor a boat (or get tangled in your bicycle chain)?
Dumb and Dumbest 0
I wish I were as optimistic as Farron regarding the “not going to cut it factor.”
Self-Fulfilling Prophets 0
At the Des Moines Register, Matt Sinovic discusses the “con” in “conservative”; here’s a snippet:
Red Harvest* 0
At Science 2.0, Hontas Farmer discusses yet another case of a black man killed by police for being.
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*With apologies to Dashiel Hammett.