“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Drive politely.
A bullet hole was found in the car door of the vehicle the couple arrived in, and after more questioning the woman said the man had accidentally shot himself while in the driver’s seat of the vehicle. The gun had been tossed out of the vehicle in the area of Wicks Lane and St. Andrews Drive.
It seems that the jumper and jumpee were one and the same.
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.
“Block Contact” 0
What bright light decided that unexpected annoying text messages from unknown persons would be a productive way to get out the vote?
Furrfu.
Make TWUUG Your LUG 0
Learn about the wonderful world of free and open source. Use computers to do what you want, not what someone else wants you to do. Learn how to use GNU/Linux and its plethora of free and open source software to get stuff done with computers.
It’s not hard; it’s just different.
When: Monthly TWUUG meeting at 7:30 p. m. on the first Thursday of the month (November 1, 2018). Pre-meeting dinner at Chicago Uno, JANAF shopping center, 6:00 p. m. (map)
Who: Everyone in TideWater/Hampton Roads with interest in any/all flavors of Unix/Linux. There are no dues or signup requirements. All are welcome.
Where: Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital in Norfolk Training Room (map). (Wireless and wired internet connection available.) Turn right upon entering, then left at the last corridor and look for the open meeting room.
I Needed a Break 0
‘Nuf said.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness continues, and bags more stupid.
Now, about those IQ tests for hunting licenses . . . .
QOTD 0
Edmund Crispin:
(Upon the finding of the victim in a mystery story–ed.) She had been an attractive girl. But that “had been” was not a conventional gesture to the fact of death. It was an honest admission that without life the most beautiful body is an object of no interest. We are not bodies, thought Nigel, we are lives.
Crispin, Edmund (real name, Bruce Montgomery), The Case of the Gilded Fly (London: Bloomsbury, 12018), p. 80-81.
Articles of Faith 0
David Atkins calls the roll of what modern American conservatives must believe in order to be, well, modern conservatives. In the aggregate, assembled all in one place, the list is mind-blowing. Here’s a bit of it; the rest is at the link.
To be a modern conservative is to believe that thousands of desperate Central American migrants are being paid by George Soros–himself a symbol and often a substitute code word for Jews, also coded as “globalists” in mainstream Republican rhetoric–to come to the United States to vote illegally and disrupt the midterm elections.
To be a modern conservative is to believe in a ludicrous, grandiose conspiracy of tens of thousands of organizers, undocumented people and elections officials to implement voter impersonation fraud at scale.
QOTD 0
Judith Kelman:
Life, I tell my sons, is what happens when you are making other plans.
Kelman, Judith, “Introduction” to Rex Stout’s Curtains for Three (New York: Bantam, 1994), p. vi
Commonalities 0
Stanton E. Samenow, who has long experience studying offenders, high-lights the key commonalities among mass shooters in an article at Psychology Today Blogs. Here’s a nugget:
Follow the link for more.
Missing the Point 0
One of the purposes of the social contract is that persons can attend public events without needing armed guards.