2017 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness can get you out of a jam.
The driver told officers that he had been trying to clear a jam in his loaded revolver when he shot himself in the leg. The bullet went clear through him, continuing on its path to strike the man in the passenger seat – also in the leg.
Key Facts 0
Dan Casey marvels at his new $400.00 car key.
That Sinking Feeling 0
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
Drinking Liberally Virginia Beach Thursday 0
When fellowship is needed, join us . . . .
When: Thursday, August 10, 6 p.
Where:
Croc’s 19 Street Bistro
620 19th Street (Map)
More here.
QOTD 0
Frank Harris:
Aside:
Bennett Cerf once said of one of Frank Harris’s anecdotes that “he recounted it with the assurance of one who could not possibly have been present.”
Trumpling the Golden Door 0
Bruce Lowry finds himself disgusted by Donald Trump’s choice to play to the basest. A snippet:
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In my mind, of all the Trump nonsense we have been forced to swallow in the last year or so, this may be the most distasteful yet.
It is rotten red meat served up to appease a particular crowd. Unsurprisingly, the two senators carrying the president’s water on this issue are white, conservative Southerners – Tom Cotton of Arkansas, and David Perdue of Georgia.
(Redundancy removed.)
Immunity Impunity
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At the Boston Review, Tracey L. Meares notes that a small but vocal movement has concluded that American policing is so broken that it must be abolished and consider their arguments.
She traces the history of U. S. police forces back to Southern slave patrols and notes the many instances, some noted in these electrons, of random police killings of unarmed civilians and of police forces’ refusal to hold their killers responsible (or, to put it another way, police administrations’ willfully aiding and abetting felony murder), then moves on to consider possible remedies. I commend the article to your attention.
Here’s a bit:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
A polite family is a close family.
At the same time, his daughter, 17, was placing a phone into a pocket in the truck’s door when the gun discharged. The single shot hit the man in the hip area and struck his daughter in the arm.
