- Ha! There’s some nice road-rage poetic justice for ya.
- The pink police state. How the country becomes more authoritarian and rule-bound at the same time some personal behaviors become more “allowed.”
- Another scientific study that proves what’s blatantly obvious to dog people: dogs get jealous. (HRH Princess Ava Prettypaws has spent her whole life trying to insert herself between me and any other critter I ever pay attention to.)
- Radley Balko on victim disarmament and race. I’m so glad to see Radley’s vital work in the Washington Post.
- Aw, do poo widdle senator. Him suffering so much him dust had to plagiarize. Him dust couldn’t help him widdle self. Yeah. I’m sure “mistakes were made,” too, and he never intended to “give the appearance of wrongdoing.”
- How to invent a person online.
- You may have heard that Maryland-based Beretta, which had planned to expand into Tennessee, decided instead to move all its manufacturing there after Maryland passed bad gun laws. Better than that, even. In looking for a new location, Beretta explicitly rejected West Virginia because of Joe Manchin.
Cats also get jealous.
I heard that ‘dogs get jealous’ thing in the Jeep yesterday and laughed out loud. The boys assured me it isn’t so. I asked them why is it, then, that the only way I ever get to pet just one dog is if it’s the only one in the room? No answer.
I wonder how much we paid for that breathtakingly obvious information.
@Joel: Astonishingly…
“Funding: This research was not supported by any funding agency. It was performed in CH’s position as a professor at UCSD with volunteer subjects.”
Of course, when looked closer at such claims in the past, I often found that the PI was scraping by on 2-3 hundred grand in nonspecific grants.
Cats: Boy, do they get jealous. When Yuki wanted to curl up by my side, there better not have been another cat there first. She’d chase them off at tooth and claw point. Later, she mellowed out; she’d let Jigsaw stay, but she’d lay down on top of her, then wiggle around until she’d worked her way down between Jigsaw and myself. (But Osaka was never allowed to remain in the vicinity. He was scared s——s of Yuki, despite being half again her size even with just three legs and half a brain.)
Links? OK!
http://www.7deadlymag.com/kush/weed-twinkies-dankies/ — is the Twinkies thread still going?
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/07/23/blacklisted/ — rules for labelling you as a terrorist
This is a little O/T (but certainly in keeping with a lot of the discussions in these parts), but there is a new website called “Fatal Encounters” (http://www.fatalencounters.org) which is “creating an impartial, comprehensive and searchable national database of people killed during interactions with law enforcement.” And here is an interview with its creator: http://zerogov.com/?p=3514. Sounds like an endeavor worth supporting.
I remember the 1960s. It was all about flower children telling you, “Do your own thing.” Well, as long as your thing looked like their thing.
Time after time I got told that being an Eagle Scout couldn’t possibly be my thing.
“Tolerant?” Not hardly. And they grew up even less so.
I never realized inventing an imaginary person was so hard, and so much work.
Re: pink police state
Even hippies grow old. Old people, many of them anyway, grow fearful and conformist. I never could figure out why.
Still, I don’t see the “right” as any different in this respect than the “left” (keeping in mind the bullshit nature of these categories). The most fearful people I know are all conservatives.
Gun control advocates all ought to take a look at the Shaneen Allen case to see what they are shooting for.
I like that Beretta is the oldest company in the world. Nearing its 500th birthday IIRC.
[I like that Beretta is the oldest company in the world.]
Not even close. Formed in 1526, Beretta is the oldest active firearm manufacturer in the world, but there are lots of older companies, and lots older companies.
Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan was chartered in 705.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies
Another fantasy destroyed by Wikipedia, dang them!
Off topic but dog related –
One of my “must read” stops (along with seeing what Claire’s up to) is the Home On The Range blog. If anyone here has been there, read Brigid’s blog, then you probably already know Barkley the black Labrador Retriever. She has written a book about her time with Barkley; and while she is mysterious like Claire is about herself, Brigid still manages to connect with many people with her writing style (just like Claire does.)
Anyway, it’s worth checking out. And use Claire’s Amazon link too 😉
I mention this here, because not only all the dog lovers here, but because I know the group here understands how hard it is to promote a book while not revealing to much regarding it’s author. 🙂
http://mausersandmuffins.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-book-of-barkley-has-been-published.html
Thank you, naturegirl. I also read Brigid’s blog sometimes (and I’m not a big blog reader). She writes and thinks beautifully.
Thanks for plugging my Amazon links, too. Sales have been way down for several months and I’ve been trying to get around to making a good post to encourage people to use them.
Here’s “my” link to Brigid’s book:
The Book of Barkley: Love and Life Through the Eyes of a Labrador Retriever
Thank you Claire, I was worried I’d be in trouble for spamming. But it’s so worth reading. I loved Borepatch’s review of it, too.
Hang on a bit, the big move is looming and that will mean “all new everything” if it works out properly – – your Amazon link will get a good workout from me then. 🙂
naturegirl — Nah, not spamming. That was a good mention. I haven’t read the book yet, but I’m seeing glowing reviews from other freedomistas (including a couple of bloggers who occasionally comment here). I think Brigid is a wonderful writer and thinker. And … well, she loves dogs. What more needs saying.
The Big Move! I know that’s been a long, long time coming for you. Good luck with it (and I sure would like to see some BHM articles come out of your long adventure).
Thank you, all luck gratefully accepted and hoarded :). I don’t know if any of this is BHM worthy – more appropriately would probably fill up a few psychology journals, heh. But it’s time to “pick a spot” and sit a while in order to launch into the next adventure (that probably only makes sense to me).