2019 archive
Plucking the Flock 0
(I thought of a better title than “Marketing Mammon.”)
Money Talks . . . 0
. . . and he answers.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness takes practice.
“The deputies actually had to take cover behind some logs,” Ryan said, uncertain if they were being deliberately targeted. The officers called out and eventually made contact with the group firing weapons, located about a mile east of the cemetery.
Turns out “several” people were target shooting from private property using high-powered rifles, Ryan said, and as of Saturday evening, authorities were still on the scene, investigating. A woman was sitting in the vehicle at the cemetery that was struck — in the hood — and Ryan noted that being Memorial Day weekend, more and more people may be going to cemeteries on Sunday and Monday.
Yet more evidence that “responsible gun owner” is not a thing.
QOTD 0
Peter Senge:
The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.
(Missing attribution fixed.)
Plus ca Change 0
A map of the House of Representatives vote on the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote.
Via PoliticalProf.
Extra-Special Bonus QOTD 0
S. S. Van Dine (Willard Huntington Wright), who could say much in few words when the muse struck:
Nature had endowed Miss La Fosse with many of its arts, and those that Nature had omitted, Miss La Fosse had herself supplied.
Van Dine, S. S., The Canary Murder Case, in a double volume with
The Benson Murder Case (London: Leonaur.com, 2010), p. 344
Damned If You, Damned If You Don’t 0
Sportswriter extraordinaire Bob Molinaro catches the irony:
Malignant Narcissist or Just the Garden Variety Kind? 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Dan Neuharth notes that the number of persons who have referred to Donald Trump as having “malignant narcissism” has been increasing; it’s not just a few outliers any more. He proceeds to provide the background and definition of “malignant narcissism.”
Follow the link and decide for yourself.
No End in Sight 0
Jane Harman, former Congressperson and current president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, ponders the pressure for yet another Great and Glorious War for a Lie with a Country whose Name Starts with “I.” She recalls Colin Powell’s speech mongering the Great and Glorious War for a Lie in Iraq.
A snippet:
Much later, Powell would call his U.N. speech a “great intelligence failure” and a “blot” on his record.
Plus ca Change 0
Farron remarks on the Party of No Ideas.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness continues . . .
(snip)
“He got out of the car, chambered a round — when the round was chambered, the gun accidentally went off,” Griffeth.
. . . and yet another gun is reported to have fired itself.