“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Always be packing. Every noise you hear is a potential target.
While the two were walking back to their vehicle the stepfather told deputies that he heard something, which he though might be a animal, running up behind him according to the release.
The stepfather, who was carrying a pistol, pulled it and fired and immediately realized he had shot his stepson the release said.
Jesus. The stupid.
QOTD 0
John Hodgman:
If cats had a right to privacy, there would be no Facebook, and thus we might still have a functioning democracy.
Hodgman, John, “Bonus Advice from John Hodgman.” New York Times Magazine, August 12, 2018, p 16
The Great Game 0
Michael Nance wonders whether Trump’s meeting with Putin was “a second Yalta.”
Both Sides Don’t, How the Spin Is Spun Dept. 0
A Pod of Peas 0
Jay Bookman, at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, expands on the theme. An excerpt:
Second, and more important: Every single thing that you can say about the idiocy of Trump’s decision to hire Omarosa as a senior White House adviser — the terrible judgment it reflects, the lack of seriousness, the utter shamelessness of putting a reality-TV personality at the heart of American government — is also true of the decision by the American people to put Trump in the Oval Office.
A Taylor-Made Tantrum 0
My Congress critter is affronted that local media had the unmitigated gall to talk about real stuff that actually happened, so he’s taking his football and going home.
All the News that Fits, Foxy Lady Dept. 0
Thom muses on the current increase in hate crimes against the background America’s heritage of racism, as illuminated by Laura Ingraham’s recent rant.
Twits on Twitter 0
Shortly before Twitter was launched a decade or so ago, I heard an interview of its founders on NPR, probably on Terry Gross’s show. They predicted great things would come of their creation, great things of openness, communication, community-building, and the like.
Boy, were they wrong.
Stray Thought 0
I can’t say I’m a Sasha Baron Cohen fan. I may have seen one of his clips back in the Borat days, and I don’t subscribe to any “premium” television channels. Indeed, I think “premium television” is ipso facto an oxymoron.
Nevertheless, I’m somewhat awed by the deep vein of white-wing stupid he has managed to tap into.