October, 2024 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Shower your wife with politeness.
he round went through a door jamb and into the shower, hitting his 26-year-old wife in the shoulder, according to Shaddow.
One more time, “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.
Sowing the Whirlwind, Reprise 0
Steve M. sails into the whirlwind of lies about the whirlwind to see who’s making it swirl.
(He also wonders why some news outlets seem reluctant to explicitly call out the lying lies for their lies.)
Untruth in Labeling 0
More stuff you couldn’t make up.
A Tune for the Times 0
(Typo fixed.)
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
We are again reminded that politeness is a family value.
Too many guns. Too much stupid.
If you reduced the number of the guns, you would still have the stupid.
But you might achieve that elusive goal of a “well-regulated militia” that seems to have faded from memory . . . .
Speaking of the Whirlwind . . . . 0
(Warnin: Short commercial at the end.)
Republican Thought Police 0
They are fighting for the freedom of repress.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
The Weather Bombers 0
A caller talks about his North Carolinian father-in-law’s refusing to accept aid from FEMA after losing almost everything to hurricane Helene because he believe Trump’s lies.
Via C&L, which has the transcript.
Speaking of “Bankrupt” and “Looted” . . . . 0
Robert Reich discusses what a second Donald Trump presidency means for the economy.
Or you can read the transcript.
Feeling Anxious? 0
If you’re worried about the upcoming election (I know I try not to think of it too much, because I find the prospect of the U. S. turning into yet another bankrupt, looted Trump business to be somewhat disquieting), Robin D. Stone, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, offers some hints for dealing with “election anxiety.”
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society’ 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” didn’t know the gun was loaded.
(They never seem to think to check, do they? I guess the urge to caress that portable phallus overrides all caution.)
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.
Courting Disaster 0
At Above the Law, Liz Dye reports that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Supremacist Court seems to have some wounded fee-fees.