The sitzmark of horrid doom

Sweet Albion has found another killer.

I see.

The by-line of an elected official appears over a weekly column. A certain amount of editing is sometimes required to create an illusion of literacy.

"Numbers suggest that it might be effective to impose additional restrictions on younger drivers to the extent those restrictions deal with the circumstances that lead enhance the possibilities a teenager may have an accident."

I have decided this sentence shall not survive.

BusinessWeak says ... (with multiple choice quiz)

"Big Shots Go Down at Gun Show."

See, "big shot," "gun show." Clever play on words. Get it? Huh? Get it?

It's a quick and dirty report from the SHOT Show which in vintage wire-service speak might be called "a short book," meaning a couple hundred words or less on a story that could be ignored but which some editor decided deserved a mention.

This one hit BusinessWeek because of the FBI sting that corralled the SW sales veep along with about 20 others for bribery of an African, otherwise known as doing business in Africa. BusinessWeek seemed to agree with the feds that it would be just cuter than a baby monkey to make the actual pinches at the big industry trade show.

The piece also included the word we've been breathlessly awaiting, gun sales are down a little from the (pick one):

(a) 2008-2009 panic buying by mouth breathing rednecks driving rusty pickups with Confederate flags and hounds with fleas and ticks.

(b) elevated 2008-2009 sales level due to citizens who, fearing the new and more authoritarian government might decide that the Second Amendment was obsolete, chose prudently to equip themselves for whatever eventualities might occur.

Aftermath

A libertarian mentality can't get all that excited about Senator-elect Brown except in the sense that he derailed an even greater danger and that he seems to understand our respect for Amendment Two.

There is a certain pleasure in the confused annoyance with which the forces of His Obamaness are reacting to Massachusetts, 2010. A colleague who is still an active professional in the political game is betting that one result is Harry Reid announcing his retirement quite soon.

That would be nice, but the fallout I want to see before Valentine's Day is Rahm (I am a political genius) Emanuel back in Chicago, approving driveway permits for ward heelers.