When your site meter goes bonkers it's a fair bet you have been favored with a Tam trackback, and a few minutes with the "details" and "referrals" columns reveal this woman has readers by the hundreds -- at least -- in the worlds of academia and government.
This gets a fellow asking why academia and government continue to harbor so many slovenly thinkers.
Long ago I subjected myself to the study of that branch of the psychological sciences dealing with need satisfaction. Reduced to its basics, the science holds that if a hungry ass sees a pile of hay, it will eat it. Apparently this is incorrect.
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Mar 18, 2011
Mar 17, 2011
Beauty in .45ACP
Please go see a great portrait of a Marine veteran -- certainly of Iwo Jima and perhaps of the 4th Marines in pre-war China or Nicaragua in the 30s. Who knows what history it helped make?
To heck with our obsession with shiny newness in our relics. This one is museum quality.
Thank you, Wyatt.
To heck with our obsession with shiny newness in our relics. This one is museum quality.
Thank you, Wyatt.
Calling Ann Landers
Dear Ann,
I am soooo tired of being such an ordinary citizen. How can I become extraordinary enough for permission to defend myself?
Despondent in Smugley-On-Lake
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Dear SOL Despondent,
You could certainly become an elected official, although I understand you may not wish to, for reasons of hygiene.
Ann
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In California where firearms official policy for us of the other ranks can best be summed up as "NO," at least three lawmakers have decided that they are entitled to become only ones. Ordinary Californians face nearly prohibitive barriers to firearms possession and use. Their elected leaders find this personally inconvenient and have floated a bill to allow legislators and many other statewide officlals to carry concealed. Even the LA Times is somewhat incredulous.
The surprising thing about this bill isn't just that it has appeared in California, which tends to favor restrictive gun laws, but that its coauthors are all Democrats who in the past have voted to limit gun rights for ordinary citizens.
In Washington D.C., too:
Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert told reporters today that his staff is working on a measure to allow members of Congress to carry concealed weapons in the District of Columbia - including in the Capitol itself. D.C. laws bar regular people from carrying concealed weapons for self-defense.
In fairness, Louie is not particularly anti-gun. Nevertheless his bill would ensure that congressthings, like California legisthings, would become legally irregular. Okay, but try to hold it until you get off my lawn. Speaking of hygiene and all.
I am soooo tired of being such an ordinary citizen. How can I become extraordinary enough for permission to defend myself?
Despondent in Smugley-On-Lake
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Dear SOL Despondent,
You could certainly become an elected official, although I understand you may not wish to, for reasons of hygiene.
Ann
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In California where firearms official policy for us of the other ranks can best be summed up as "NO," at least three lawmakers have decided that they are entitled to become only ones. Ordinary Californians face nearly prohibitive barriers to firearms possession and use. Their elected leaders find this personally inconvenient and have floated a bill to allow legislators and many other statewide officlals to carry concealed. Even the LA Times is somewhat incredulous.
The surprising thing about this bill isn't just that it has appeared in California, which tends to favor restrictive gun laws, but that its coauthors are all Democrats who in the past have voted to limit gun rights for ordinary citizens.
In Washington D.C., too:
Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert told reporters today that his staff is working on a measure to allow members of Congress to carry concealed weapons in the District of Columbia - including in the Capitol itself. D.C. laws bar regular people from carrying concealed weapons for self-defense.
In fairness, Louie is not particularly anti-gun. Nevertheless his bill would ensure that congressthings, like California legisthings, would become legally irregular. Okay, but try to hold it until you get off my lawn. Speaking of hygiene and all.
Mar 16, 2011
Well, since the world is coming to an end anyway...
Pinned up above a hundred thousand GI bunks in the days before she had to splain anything.
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