- Bloomberg’s (now-former) head anti-gun honcho blames victim disarmament failures on Obamacare and Edward Snowden. And admits that none of his efforts could have stopped a mass shooting, in any case.
- It seems that shooting helpless dogs is no longer enough. It’s apparently more good, sadistic fun to cut their throats. Can you even imagine? (Via David Codrea)
- Ten tricks to make your life better today. (James Altucher does this stuff better than anybody.)
- “I Love My Guns.” JPFO reprints a “recent classic” from MamaLiberty. Nice going, Susan.
- Somehow these two go eerily well together. It’s terrifying how much information Google has on us and the danger Microsoft services pose to gun businesses.
That fascinating musical group Ok Go (they of the mind-bendingly geeky videos and the slightly forgettable music) have done it again. They’ve released their first new video in several years. Despite its sad dearth of dogs, this maze of optical illusions done in their standard one-shot (or so they make it appear) technique is still pretty awesome.
Thanks, Claire. 🙂 I’m honored and excited about being able to do this, thanks to you.
The next article is already in the works and I’ve given out six more of my free book pdf files already this morning.
I hadn’t seen Ok Go before; thanks for sharing that. You’re right: the song is eminently forgettable but the visual is fun. Here’s another one of theirs which should appeal to the dog lovers among us: http://youtu.be/nHlJODYBLKs
Google probably has more information on me than I’d like, but I do my best to minimize it by using search anonymizers (chiefly Startpage). And I never post anything I want to keep private onto the Cloud; I have absolutely no doubt that Microsoft is monitoring it, sharing with the NSA et al, and would delete it if they so chose.
Well said, MamaLiberty. I especially like the last sentence. Thanks.
I don’t know, I just can’t get too exercised about this google and microsoft thing. If I want guns I go to gunbroker.com or armslist.com, or buy one in a store. If I want to browse I use Seamonkey (or any number of other choices – Chrome is not the only choice). If I want email I do just about anything other than gmail or outlook.
If Microsoft wants to drive people away with their political opinions and faux moralizing, who am I to stop them, or worry about it?
There are more guns in America than ever, better quality now, and all efforts to reduce them have been beaten to a pulp. I guess I just have a hard time finding bad news in all that goodness.
If you want to worry about something, try the coming collapse. That could be very bad.
I just got done (finally) reading Nock’s “Our Enemy, The State”. Now that is some depressing shit, but remember he wrote in 1935, in the Depression when it looked like the whole world was going into some fascist orgasm of violence and state regulation and control. Still, people survived, and in a lot of cases things got better. I wonder what Nock would have thought of the internet, or of the notion that currencies can be created uncontrolled by bankers, or of guns sold by the millions.
For me, the most important of the 10 Tricks is the Power of No. I recently read that highly effective people have one trait: they control their time. They have a routine from which they don’t vary, and they do NOT allow interruptions or unscheduled visits. They say NO a lot.
I started doing that at the office. No more drop-by’s allowed. No more suppliers getting a meeting on their schedule. No more picking up the phone just because it rings. No, I say, not now. Get on my schedule when I’m ready for you.
It has transformed my ability to get things done, and it has lowered my stress considerably.
Ron — I love that, and I’m going to use that when I (finally) get to part II of my “pleasures of being obsolete” rant. Good for you, too. It’s hard saying NO … then having to say it again and again and again …