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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Practice random acts of politeness.
“I am just driving along listening to my music, jamming out, and all of a sudden, my windshield breaks. I was scared.”
For Kaitlyn McGrath, Tuesday night was supposed to be like any other night in Wayne County. Just before 11 p.m., the woman from Hawley was on her way to pick up her husband from work. As she was driving along Route 6 in Hawley, she heard a noise.
Dread Locks 0
Elizabeth Wellington, after noting that the winners of all three major U. S. beauty contests this year are black women, find herself dismayed that the continuing effort to disparage, discourage, and disrespect* black persons’ natural hair. A snippet.
The law, appropriately referred to as the C.R.O.W.N. law, an acronym for Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural hair, passed the California State Senate and is now on its way to the State Assembly. Mitchell introduced it, she said, because she was weary of seeing black children and teenagers — like Buena Vista wrestler Andrew Johnson, whose locks were sheared at the behest of match referee Alan Maloney — humiliated “because their natural hair was deemed unruly or a distraction to others.
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*I think that’s the first time I’ve used that neologism, either verbally written, but somehow it seems appropriate.
The Entitlement Society 0
They value their own family tree.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
On the Campaign Male 0
The Privileged Flew 0
Elie Mystal argues cogently that Donald Trump’s attempt to assert executive privilege regarding the Mueller report (and other stuff) amounts to putting toothpaste back in the tube.
Drinking Liberally Virginia Beach Today 0
May you join us this month.
When: Thursday, April–Drat May 9, 6 p. m.
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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
A shingle instance of politeness . . . .
(snip)
“The person who fired the shot was actually getting out of his truck, slipped on a piece of construction debris,” Losat said. “At this point, he was transitioning the gun between the waistband, his pocket, at some point where the gun is fired unintentionally.”
The Pusher Men 0
A small move toward truth in vending . . . .
(snip)
Drug companies responded that adding prices to their commercials could unintentionally harm patients.*
Much more at the link.
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*Yeah. Right.
Chartering a Course for Disaster 0
Writing at AL.com, Kyle Whitemore cites evidence that rules are for public schools, not for charters.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Just another day in NRA Paradise . . . .
(snip)
The suspects went “deep inside the school” and engaged in two locations, he said. The suspects used at least one handgun but it was unknown what other weapons might have been used.
