So many open tabs, so much of interest. Need a second links post today to cover it all.
- Ticketmaster wants to use facial recognition to grant or deny you access to concerts. Wonder how many millions will cheerfully sell themselves for such privileges?
- Good on you, NSSF and Springfield Armory. A sporting goods store that lobbies against firearms deserves to be cast into outer darkness.
- Will Cuomo get away with using regulatory power against the NRA?
- Remember that new policy in federal prisons forbidding books to be shipped in except via one approved vendor? Yeah. It increased prices by 30% and the feddies have momentarily backed down following a WaPo inquiry. (There’s more to it than books, though; I don’t think this is over.)
- “Your culture is my underwear.” Andrew Klavan gives it good and hard to the cultural-appropriation pecksniffs.
- Can amor fati improve your contentment with life?
- Clever codger stops a fleeing suspect.
Amor Fati; I’m currently reading The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph, a short book and one I highly recommend to everyone.
Thanks, Comrade! Queued at the library. And here’s an Amazon link:
https://www.amazon.com/Obstacle-Way-Timeless-Turning-Triumph/dp/1591846358/?tag=livifree07-20
“In every thing give thanks…” (1 Thessalonians 5:18). That’s a commandment I can usually handle.
When somebody tells me, “For every thing give thanks,” I reply, “No Thanks.”
More of THIS nonsense: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/she-called-his-elevator-joke-offensive-he-called-her-complaint-frivolous-whos-right/2018/05/03/43ba4084-4ee1-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html?utm_term=.c280e939a9dc
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I’m further into the book now (The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials) and I have now realized that the author has different hero’s than I however I am still agreeing with his message even if his hero’s aren’t mine.