2017 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Practice courtesy on the nation’s byways,
But, Lay did not stop, Click 2 Houston reported police as saying. He followed the other driver into Pearland where he ran the hit-and-run driver off the road and shot out a tire on the car.
“Friendswood.”
Yeah.
Right.
Ryan’s Derp 0
In the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, David D. Haynes documents the new dance craze–the Ryan Shuffle. A snippet:
Call it the Ryan Shuffle.
He dodges. He weaves. He loses his voice — and then he loses his nerve.
More steps at the link.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
Cover Boy 0
There’s now a Time Magazine Donald Trump cover that’s not fake.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness builds strong families.
Think about this.
He’s “putting his rifle away” with a chambered shell and with the safety off (if indeed it has a safety)–oh, never mind. Those portable penises do seem to have minds of their own.
How Much Is Too Much? 0
That’s what Dick Polman wants to know. A snippet:
(snip)
. . . they’re still fine with Russia penetrating our sovereignty, and with Russia’s chumps running the White House into the ground, as long as they can cling to their wet dream of getting Trump’s signature on a bill that slashes taxes for the wealthy and zaps health coverage for 20 million people.
QOTD 0
Rex Stout:
. . . circumstances alter understandings.
Stout, Rex, “Frame-Up for Murder” in Death Times Three (New York, Bantam, 1984), p. 139
And Now, a Musical Interlude 0
As my two or three regular readers have likely figured out by now, I like swing (I also like rock, jazz, classical, ragtime–good music is good music–but there’s something about swing . . . .). The more I hear the Andrews Sisters, the more I realize that they were indeed something special.