In 1789, the best available military technology was the musket. It was a cumbersome weapon by today’s standards, and had an involved process to load and fire. However, it was not quite as slow to load as it would appear to modern eyes. A trained soldier, commiting the steps of the process to muscle memory,… Read More Micheal Moore and the Musket Fallacy
English is known for its wonderful economy of odd squiggles. It’s what makes our language so contextual. At the Blah Blah Blog, a list of interesting new grammar points: The Irony Point The Love Point The Exclamation Comma The Question Comma The Interrobang Yeah, they’re rediculous. So are a great many words Shakespeare invented.
Police are still looking for the guy, who seems to have abducted Ripken, drove around with her for a few hours, and then let her go: …investigators are trying to answer the main question and are hoping that surveillance cameras at a Baltimore County Royal Farms and a Diner will provide them with clues. The… Read More Background/Update on the Vi Ripken Story
Now this is just odd. ABERDEEN, Md. – Vi Ripken, the mother of Baltimore Orioles legend Cal Ripken, Jr., was kidnapped at gunpoint Tuesday morning, according to the family. She was found in Aberdeen, evaluated on the scene and refused medical treatment. She is now home with family. So either these are the worst kidnappers ever, or the… Read More Cal Ripken’s Mother Kidnapped, Found.
I’ve got something I’m working on, so I’m going to withdraw a bit today. I need to transfer a First Chapter from my Moleskine to Microsoft Word. Details will follow when there are any.
Ernst Schrieber, commenting in the Protein wisdom post linked earlier, offers this New York Post article: In 1911 — in the wake of a notorious Gramercy Park blueblood murder-suicide — Sullivan sponsored the Sullivan Act, which mandated police-issued licenses for handguns and made it a felony to carry an unlicensed concealed weapon. This was the… Read More The Strange Birth of New York’s Gun Laws
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Brian Ross Blows It http://www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook Gah. WordPress. This is most of it…
Twitter is not for the slow of wit, nor for the rushed to judgement… It was desegregation that caused white America to believe that the government had stopped “protecting” them, and so they needed guns. The mind scarcely has the courage to boggle. Presumably white Americans slaughtered the Indians with racially-insensitive discourse. And that business… Read More Amanda Marcotte Don’t Know Much About History….UPDATED with More Gob-Smackedness
Today, as one of the perks of my job, I got an iPad. I’m still playing around with it, but one of the first apps downloaded was WordPress. So far it seems designed for your more utterly dashed-off tripe, so this may not be the best thing to ever happen to andrewjpatrick.com. However, I can… Read More Playing with My New Toy
…thus subjecting his Marin County neighbors to the kind of treatment that Star Wars fans have become accustomed to: Uber-liberal* George Lucas, thwarted in his plans to build a film studio on his 6,0000 acre ranch in Marin County, announces that he’s selling the whole place to a developer of low-income housing. His liberal neighbors… Read More George Lucas Takes His Ball and Goes Home…
Content Blues 