Judge Bork

The title should be Justice Bork, but United States senators could not abide the idea of confirming a man that much smarter than themselves.

Judge Bork's message in his confirmation hearing was: "The orderly process of law, under the Constitution, is infinitely more important than the outcome of any given case, no matter how the case crumbles your political cookie. It is high time you guttersnipes started honoring that principle."

A moral man. RIP.

Joe Biden to the rescue

Tuesday: No one knows who His Ineptness will put in charge of raping modifying the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. Gun maker  stocks plunge.

Wednesday: His Ineptness appoints Joe Biden as national gun control czar. Gun stocks open more than 4 per cent higher.

We can't expect a break like that every day, folks, so march on. Make them prove the blame for murder falls on the people who didn't kill anyone.

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(Dead-cat bounce remarks cheerfully considered.)

Newtown and Elian Gonzales

If they can try to drive the debate with heart-rending -- if not entirely logical --  visual symbols, so can I.

What debate? Why, the one insisting that only the Only Ones be permitted modern weapons.

Newtown and Roger Ebert

Turk Turon found an apt contribution to the  discussion in an interview of Roger Ebert.

NBC asked the movie critic about the effect of violent movies on things like the Columbine murders:

In short, I said, events like Columbine are influenced far less by violent movies than by CNN, the NBC Nightly News and all the other news media, who glorify the killers in the guise of "explaining" them.

RTWT.