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The god-given freedom to carry semi-automatics -- want an artist!!!!
Fond as I am of the Ruger 22 semi-automatic on which I learned to shoot, I don't think the head of the National Rifle Association was referring to 22s when he said:
We believe that we deserve and have every right to the same level of freedom that government leaders reserve for themselves - to defend ourselves and our families with semi-automatic ( Read more... ) -
Places I am definitely NOT a liberal, or at least not ahistorical
Salon reports that Amsterdam has a new plan for public housing "nuisance" tenants, which consists of giving them shelter in shipping containers ( Read more... ) -
Solstice, Part 3
Part of ongoing Solstice dabble series. Will make little sense unless you read Part One and Part Two3. Banquet ( Read more... ) -
Luck and Pluck
I love LJ's new announcement: uses may experiencing difficulties with site slowness, with authorization, with posting comments and entries or complete inaccessibility, while using some ISPs." Aside from what I assume is a typo, it just seems to all-encompassing. except the ISPs. I always thought each computer has a different ISP. In which case, it' ( Read more... ) -
Don't NY Subways have railings?
Ii've been occasionally reading about people being pushed off platforms in NY. Because one of the most recent killings is pretty clearly murder, it gets higher priority and therefore pictures. So I took my first look at an NY subway platform when it wasn't some kind of chase/action scene. And noticed that they were absolutely bare ( Read more... ) -
Another Modest Proposal
The problem is, most pundits think that solutions to economic problems need to be solved by economics. Thus, the ebb and flow of money and power -- interchangeable commodities, really -- should decide how ordinary people live ( Read more... ) -
Solstice, part 2
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, STRAY!!!!!
Drabble 2: The Dinner Party
After finishing his current book, Arthur had announced to Merlin, “I want a Symposium like the one Socrates had.”
"When must I organise this, Sire?" Merlin snapped back ( Read more... ) -
An actual piece of fic!
So we were talking, grey_hunter and I, about drabbles and their uses; we were around fandom when drabbles meant precisely one hundred words, and were not generally part of a series, in the Very Old Days. And somehow I ended up writing one for a prompt, and because she and I are looooong writers, the drabble was over 600 words. So we decided that something ( Read more... ) -
Just an observation, inspired by David Sirota's wise comments
When we examine the characteristics of mass murderers in America, certain elements of their profile become immediately obvious, even to bystanders like me. Swaggering into a school, backing up a truck to bomb a federal building, climbing a tower to shoot at random students, passing poison around a compound, or shooting someone in a church, they all ( Read more... )