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An all-critters post to cheer you up

Published September 27, 2016 9:09 am by Claire

Since you suffered through last night’s debate (even if you didn’t actually watch it), here’s a nice palate cleanser for you: critters! Bulldogs are terrible, terrible animals. Here are 22 reasons you should never get one. Neglected pit bull loses most of her puppies, then adopts a beagle. A sweet weeper — though I do question that photo of a “two-week old” beagle pup. (H/T ML) And man, this is one gutsy guy. Here’s a badass squirrel who becomes even badderass when subjected to a Photoshop duel. This qualifies as being about critters only when you consider that so many…

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Monday links

Published September 26, 2016 1:38 am by Claire

The economy slides closer to that black hole. Confirmation of that unlikely truth: pot users are thinner than contemporaries with similar lifestyles. And confirmation of an unsurprising truth: pot prohibitionists have as much respect for the law and for truth as anti-gunners. Second Amendment sanctuary cities. Imagine it; government actually serving the people and our rights for a change. “For the first time in a generation, Democrats are betting they’re on the winning side of the gun issue.” And they’re sending out Giffords and Kelly as their “majority” representatives to the swing states. There’s not a reason in the world…

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Weekend links

Published September 18, 2016 7:20 am by Claire
  • Local-government control: a campaign issue ignored while the federal government grows and grows and grows. (And yes, you could take this to a local level beyond all government.) (H/T PT)
  • Reminds me of flap over the word “niggardly” a few years back. Ignorami can’t even use a dictionary before embarrassing themselves.
  • A tiny pension plan hints at bigger problems in California’s government pension systems.
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    • Friday links

    Published September 16, 2016 11:13 am by Claire
  • Federal appeals court judge says “mental health” ban on gun ownership may violate the Second Amendment. (Yes, you and I know it’s not only a matter of “may.”) (H/T PT)
  • Missouri joins the constitutional carry movement over the objections of its governor. (Tip o’ hat to L.A., who doesn’t like that last line any more than the rest of us purists do.)
  • Now, is the only kind of politician worth a damn.
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    • Weekend links

    Published September 10, 2016 5:35 pm by Claire
  • Twenty-nine strategic lessons from people who’ve been there. Business-oriented. But some good lifehacking material there, too. (Tip O’ hat to Shel.)
  • Alan Gura examines the court after Scalia — and explains why the next “conservative” justice may not help save the Second Amendment.
  • John Hinckley is now free to walk among us — as long as we live in the gated community where his mommy resides. I’m no shrink, but Hinckley always came across to me more as a spoiled rich boy throwing a tantrum than an authentic crazy person.
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    • Monday-that-falls-on-a-Tuesday links

    Published September 6, 2016 6:03 am by Claire
  • Per Adam in comments: “Inside the Federal Bureau of Way Too Many Guns.” How the ATF traces guns used in crimes since the mean old NRA has denied it a full computerized record. (Actually an interesting article, though it would have been better with some recognition of why that computerized database is verboten.)
  • Ah, but The Atlantic has something much easier to track, even though it could fill just as many large cardboard boxes: the scandals of Hillary from Whitewater to Bengazi.
  • With science fiction’s Hugo awards having become so politicized that a coterie of social justice pecksniffs will deny v*tes to great writers, artists, and editors merely because they’re supported by a rival (and more freedomista) coterie, The Dragon Awards arise. No cliques. Just fan voting. And of course that makes it “sexist,” “racist,” and … well, you know the drill.
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    • Weekend links

    Published September 3, 2016 7:34 am by Claire
  • “Anti-think” abounds among social justice pecksniffs. Particularly on the question of arms and the safety of politically correct minorities.
  • One of my personal heroes, Giordano Bruno, was the very model of a Freedom Outlaw Agitator. Not the most prudent guy ever born. Bit of a suckup to powerful patrons; but that’s the way it was back then.
  • Wow. We’re fast approaching a milestone (not) to celebrate. Government employees in the U.S. now outnumber manufacturing employees by a figure that’s pushing 10 million. (The article calls them workers (sic).)
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