2019 archive
The Music of the Fears 0
Shaun Mullen has tired of listening to Congressional Democrats play their favorite musical instrument: The Dithering-do.
Drinking Liberally Virginia Beach Thursday 0
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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
More playful responsible gun owner* antics . . . .
Mr. Playboy turned himself in and is currently released on bond. His playmate victim is on life support.
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*In the world of gunnuttery, all gun owners are “responsible gun owners” until suddenly they’re not.
QOTD 0
S. S. van Dine (Willard Huntington Wright) in the voice of Philo Vance:
To be sure, patience is sort of a last resort–a practice to adopt when there’s nothing else to do.
Van Dine, S. S., The Benson Murder Case in a double volume
with The Canary Murder Case (London: Leonaur.com), p. 89.
“Because It Sells” 0
Sheila Kohler explores the appeal of mongering hate as a political tactic.
Facebook Frolics 0
Bert Roughton reflects on the year since he abandoned the Zuckerborg. A snippet:
(snip)
I’ve read the back and forth in The New York Times about whether Facebook needs to be dismembered – or not. But really, who cares? It isn’t as if Facebook is some massive system that distributes food, fuel or even useful knowledge.
Facebook distributes twaddle.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Get a bang out of politeness.
He started to bang the cylinder against a table to dislodge the bullet, which went off, the report said.
The bullet was stuck in the man’s ring finger when he went to the Oconto Falls hospital emergency room . . . .
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
Twits on Twitter 0
(Remember that Texas was part of Mexico far longer than it has been part of the U. S. A. and these kids of whom this twit twits may have deeper roots in Texas than she.)
QOTD 0
Marcus Terentius Varro:
No sick man’s monstrous dream can be so wild that some philosopher won’t say it’s true.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
When you dine out at night, always be polite.
The NRA will likely argue that, had she been armed, this would not–oh, wait.
Twits on Twitter 0
Noz attempts to make sense of the nonsensical.