2016 archive
“Acceptable and Unacceptable Racism” 0
Tony Norman considers the faint, fluttery, pro forma Republican protests of Donald Trump’s overt racism even as they line up to endorse his candidacy. Here’s a nugget:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Get a drop on politeness.
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When officers arrived they learned the child had been shot when a man attempted to climb through the window to open the door because the family was locked out. As the man, a family friend, climbed through the window, a gun fell from his pants, discharged and hit the child.
Just Good, Clean Fun 0
Seriously.
Starting on Wednesday, city crews began taking couches, mattresses and other furniture from residents’ porches in hopes of removing “fuel” for post-game fires.
In the story, cited at Above the Law, the author points out that, among other things, this would seem to be an unlawful taking in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United Sates.
“A Thin-Skinned Racist Bully” 0
Elizabeth Warren plays Trump.
I ordered my Hillary Clinton bumper sticker last night because consider the alternative.
I hope to be the first on my block to have one. (Actually, who am I kidding? I will almost certainly be the first on my block to have one.)
Video via Raw Story.
Plus Ca Change 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., reads history.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness proceeds apace.
Matthew Fluty and his friend Dale Long, 15, were preparing to go bird hunting about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at young Fluty’s house in Berlin Township when Dale discharged a pump-action shotgun he was trying to clear. The shot struck the Fluty youth in the back, Sheriff Sigsworth said.
What the hell was he doing not making sure the gun was pointed at the ground?
Guns and stupid–a magic combination.
The Green Candidate 0
The results are in!
Fourteen percent were “undecided.”
More at the link.
