- Now, there’s a criminal who has big brass ones. Not to mention a helicopter at his disposal.
- Mysterious Oumuamua: Most likely neither an asteroid nor an alien spacecraft, but just an unusual comet.
- The great J.D. Tuccille explains why he and his wife are teaching their son to break the law.
- The surgeon Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase have chosen to head their healthcare initiative is a pretty interesting guy.
- Think piece for good or ill: Maybe we shouldn’t start working full time until we’re 40.
- How to stop worrying. Seven simple ways. (Why are these things actually never so simple?)
- You’ve heard it said that a well-running car engine “purrs like a kitten”? This awesome rescue video proves the point. (H/T Shel)
I started working full time at 17 while a highschool junior. Necessity not choice. Never any choice since work or starve.;
A mother cat had her kittens under the air plenum of my old Nissan…I didn’t go anywhere for four days by car, until I could get them out safely. Had I not seen the cat hop up under the car, I wouldn’t have known. I found them homes, including the mother. Fast forward a few years, to my new(er) Nissan. On my way to work, I heard a loud thumping from under the car..thinking it was a constant velocity joint, I pulled over-but the noise continued. I opened the hood and a cat popped out and ran off. Must be something about Nissans. Oumuamua …sounds like a song you’d hear on the old Dr. Demento Show.
So there’s this “armed robber” in a French prison, and (3+1+2) six armed confederates show up to break him out. European gun control is working so well.
Maybe we shouldn’t start working full time until we’re 40.
Dunno. There are several habits necessary for successful full-time jobs, and 40 seems a bit late to start building them. Plus, there are many jobs that do “involve intense physical labor.” And I think it would be a great benefit to introduce young people to FICA and its relations.
I’d rather propose several years of employment between high school and college.
I’m more inclined to have people start working younger than older. And teach them to stay out of debt. There’s a lot of freedom from not owing anybody, so you can decide to stop working to raise kids, travel, or whatever. It’s debt obligations that tie us down.
Besides all that, the article doesn’t do much to explain how a 35 yr old mother of three is going to live if SOMEBODY in the family is not working full time. The new paradigm is that the 80 yr olds will pay for it? I wonder how old she is?
“Armed gunmen” created a diversion for The Phantom’s escape. Is there such a thing as an unarmed gunman? Don’t worry, though, Clouseau always gets his man, even if he has to track him all the way to Lausanne.
Teaching your children to break the law is just telling your children that when tyranny becomes law rebellion is your duty!
“A Stanford researcher says we shouldn’t start working full time until age 40…”
Says WHO? Some of us began working about the same time we learned to shoot. Maybe there’s a correlation, there.
In any case, in a free society (what a concept) we’d start working when our parents helped us to be ready, and “retire” when we decided, and were good and ready. (Some of us, of course, never “retired” but simply changed or expanded our calling.)
And since when does partial return of the purloined sweat of our own brow dominate the equation?
Is there such a thing as an unarmed gunman?
Several times in the military I stood guard mount or marched in parades with unloaded rifles.
And there were photos circulated showing Marines marching in President Obama’s inauguration with the bolts removed from their rifles.
https://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=34092
And, of course, if a Darwinized BG tries to rob people with a fake gun, he’s a “gunman” for the purposes of self-defense.
And so it goes
https://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/06/25/new-england-border-patrol-ice-citizenship-maine-new-hampshire-highways/