Oooooh, That Smarts

The feds say we must do away with children's books published before 1985 in order to avoid the carnage we used to experience when kids licked the lead out of the ink in "Lassie" and similar tomes. Surely you recall that the near-zero survival rate of literate 10-year-olds a generation and more back. Who can forget the mass funerals of pre-teen innocents in the wake of "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish." The bodies were stacked high in the corridors of children's libraries everywhere.

And you're not gonna change my mind, but if you happen to disagree, you probably will like a Tamara take on DeeCee's designation of Big Little Books as a pandemic in the making:

I will adapt to my cigarettes getting messed with; I will improvise and overcome if you want to take my bayonet lug away; but I am this close to saddling up and busting caps over The Wizard of Oz.

Keep your slimy, regulation-encrusted hands off my childhood, you bastards. I'm not kidding.

:)

Sex and the Shooter

A prime cause of Mr. Sodini's gory shootup of the health club women was unwanted celibacy. Or so cops, shrinks, and media would have us believe. It's reasonable. I think many of us would become irritable after nearly two unlaid adult decades.

Okay, so we need a new common-sense law. Any citizen unserviced for an unreasonable interval is hereby required to undergo a therapeutic trip to a cat house. And, yes, Obamacare will cover it.

I mean, like, Dude, if it saves just one life....

Cheaper .22 LR

An impulse struck me to check ammo availability as I was passing the local WalMart, and I feel like a prospector seeing color in the pan. Wally W. here is selling Winchester 36 grain coppered hollow points for $16.97 per bulk pack of 555. A few weeks ago in Davenport, Iowa I bought a box of Remington 40 grainers, about $26 for a pack of 525. So Remington cut its bulk-pack count by 25 rounds and Winchester boosted its by five. The marketing titans battle.

The WM clerk said he had "quite a lot" of the Winchesters but wouldn't elaborate. I bought two packs, bringing the strategic reserve to 5,000, and probably should have bought more. Probably will, come to think of it.

So long, Good Dog.

Moose, RIP.