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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society’ 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” feels empowered to flash his portable phallus at the occupants of a passing vehicle on the pavement.
Courting Disaster 0
Michael in Norfolk is not sanguine about today’s Supreme Supremacist Court. A snippet:
Stray Thought 0
Plastic toothpaste tubes are a plot by Big Toothpaste to prevent you from completely emptying a tube of toothpaste, thereby necessitating that you buy another tube of toothpaste before you otherwise must needs do so.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts stands aghast Arizona Republicans’ unmitigated self-serving chutzpah double standard.
The Lake Effect 0
The water level appears to be sinking.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Oh, my. Someone else gets it!
Thomas L. Knapp writes at The (Aiken, SC) News:
The phrase “accidental shooting” is usually a contradiction in terms. There are, in the normal course of events, only two kinds of shootings: Intentional and negligent.
An intentional shooting occurs when a competent individual intentionally loads, points, and fires a properly functioning firearm.
A negligent shooting occurs when a competent individual fails to do his or her job.
Follow the link for more of his thoughts on competence.
Aside:
As my two or three regular readers know, I agree with his reasoning. Police and press should stop routinely referring to shootings as “accidental.”
The other question, though, which Knapp does not address, is why so many whom Knapp would likely characterize as “incompetent” are able to caress portable phalluses so passionately.
The Fix Is In . . . 0
. . . and it’s all about the algorithm.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
El Reg reports that, apparently, once ChatGPG makes a mistake (and it makes a lot of them), it will exist in perpetuity. Here’s the lede; follow the link for the details.
Misdirection Play, Crime Wavers Dept. 0
Thom makes the case that, despite conventional wisdom, inequality (such as, for example, the effects of Ronald Reagan’s “trickle on economics”), not poverty alone, is the primary root of crime.
He provides some telling examples.
In related vein, speaking of arrogant billionaires . . . .
And, in News of Mean for the Sake of Mean . . . . 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice theorizes that, in trying to prove just how cruel and cold-hearted she can be, South Dakota governor Kristi Noem may have just possibly stepped in it.
