Hmmmmm hmmmmm hmmmmm. A “reality television” show. I wonder what show that could be. Actually, I don’t wonder: I took a guess as soon as I saw the headline. Anyone want to play along? I’ll put this behind a jump…
Archive for the ‘Guns’ Category
Always be sure of your target and what is behind it.
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011By the way…
Thursday, November 17th, 2011…thanks to Jay G. for reminding us that Saturday is National Ammo Day.
I’m thinking about picking up some .45 Long Colt for one of my Smiths.
Saturday is also World Toilet Day.
We recommend you celebrate both holidays in a safe and appropriate fashion.
Still alive.
Thursday, November 17th, 2011Just not much to write about, and working on a final project for school.
I feel like I should write something about the Austin F1 race, but I don’t know what to make of the situation at the moment. It feels like a huge scam, but I can’t tell who is scamming who.
I also feel like I should write something about the passage of HR822, but:
- Other people said it better.
- Okay, so it passed the House. It still has to pass the Senate, and be signed into law. When it becomes law, then I’ll celebrate. But I think there’s still a long road to travel.
I also feel like I should write something about the Astros situation. Not that I care about baseball, but I have covered it before. The problem I have is that almost all of the coverage at this point is speculative; ask me again after today’s meeting, when a final deal is (or is not) made.
Edited to add: Okay, it is now official. Jim Crane is the new owner of the Astros.
Random notes: November 8, 2011.
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011Obit watch: Smokin’ Joe Frazier, 32-4-1. (And two of those losses were to Ali.) NYT obit.
Christo has obtained Federal approval for his latest project, “Over the River”.
(Artists conception in the linked article.)
Yeah. At least, it must never happen again until the next time the NYT and the current administration want to drum up support for a ban on modern sporting rifles.
Obit watch: November 1, 2011.
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011William Zeus Bligh-Glover, M.D.
Dr. Bligh-Glover was a consulting forensic pathologist, and an assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University.
He was also known in the gunblogging community as William the Coroner.
I’ve mentioned before that I have family in the Cleveland area. Next time I went up to visit them, I was hoping to be able to invite William and some other Cleveland bloggers out for dinner and storytelling one night. I never met him (though we exchanged comments a few times on his blog), but he struck me from afar as someone I’d very much like to meet and befriend.
Tributes from Calvin’s Mom and Ambulance Driver.
A handful of randomness.
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011Headline: “Texas Equusearch wants Casey Anthony to answer questions under oath”.
That’s nice. I want a pony.
From the linked article: “Texas Equusearch is suing Casey to recover the more than $100,000 it says it spent on searches for Caylee Anthony in 2008.”
On what basis? Texas Equusearch is a non-profit organization that volunteered their services. They had no contractual agreement with Casey Anthony, to the best of my knowledge, so what basis do they have for filing a suit to recover costs?
She may be guilty as all get out. But the courts disagreed: only God knows, and he will pass judgment at the appropriate time. Let it go, people.
He plays that Choctaw stickball every Friday night.
Ask not for whom the bells toll at Notre-Dame: Angélique-Françoise, Antoinette-Charlotte, Hyacinthe-Jeanne and Denise-David are going to be melted down and replaced next year.
The other day, I mentioned the California rogue PI setting up ex-husbands for DWI (plus running a brothel for the cops and selling drugs for cops) case. Balko covered this as well, prompting a lively discussion in the comments.
One of the commentators posted a link to a longer article from Diablo Magazine about PI Chris Butler, which I think makes for interesting reading. The writer apparently started out expecting a standard human-interest story about PI moms; it’s fascinating to watch his skepticism develop as things start not adding up.
The first part of that statement would have raised red flags with me: I’m not aware that Glock officially sponsors private detectives (though they do sponsor competitive shooters). It seems like something that would have been easy to check with a call to Glock’s PR department; curiously, there’s no indication that the author ever did make that call.
Just in time for Christmas.
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011Sean Sorrentino is doing a third run of Project Gunwalker t-shirts.
This is great news. As a proud owner of one of Sean’s shirts, I’m considering ordering two or three more. Remember, these shirts make great presents for any major holiday: Christmas, Easter, Hanukkah, Ashura, even Armistice Day (though from what Sean says, the shirts may ship a little late for that one).
Edited to add: Now in pink!
I am furious, Holder.
Saturday, October 8th, 2011I’m a little busy, but I’m taking a break from Chimel v. California to throw some linky-love Lawrence’s way for his “Fast and Furious” posts. Especially this most recent one about Holder, which can best be summarized as:
TMQ Watch: October 4, 2011.
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011One of WCD’s favorite quotes is from the late Arthur Schlesinger Jr.:
The notion that authority is entitled to reverence per se is the most subvervise of all notions in a free society. “There is not worse heresy,” Lord Acton wrote, “than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.” Authority is entitled only to the respect it earns, and not a whit more.
After the jump, this week’s TMQ:
Quote of the day.
Thursday, September 29th, 2011Actually, this is just an excuse to link this historical piece from the LAT, featuring Hugh O’Brian (who played Wyatt Earp in the ABC TV series “The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp”) and Al Jennings, “an admitted bank robber, train robber and cattle thief of the 1880s”.
What I like best about this piece is the huge photo at the top of Jennings and O’Brian shooting Colts, and the equally large photo at the bottom of Jennings, O’Brian, and two police officers.
What wine goes with an extra-long cheese coney and tots?
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011Chain restaurants like Sonic (in one location) and Burger King (at least in their Whopper Bars) have started offering beer and wine. Unfortunately, this has turned into a great pain for little benefit:
(Our first thought is a big mouth-filling Cabernet. Other suggestions welcome in comments.)
The LAT asks the same musical question the FAA is asking: how do you keep planes from going into the crowd at Reno?
And the FBI apparently paid a deputy in the LA County Jail $1,500 to smuggle a cellphone in to an informant. You’re telling me a government agency would do something illegal? Why, the next thing I know, you’ll be telling me that government agents used form letters from BATFE to buy guns with taxpayer money, and then provided those guns directly to the drug cartels!
(Edited to add: Fox News. Hattip: Snowflakes in Hell.)
Black comedy.
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011Last night in my “20th Century: Triumph and Tragedy” class, we were talking about World War I and the capping of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by the hapless Gavrilo Princip (who used a FN Model 1910 chambered in .32 ACP: yes, another John Moses Browning design).
One thing that I really wasn’t totally conscious of was that Princip was not acting alone; I think I read somewhere previously that someone had thrown a grenade at the archduke’s car, but missed, and filed that away deep in my subconscious.
Anyway, that someone was Nedeljko Čabrinović, who threw the grenade, missed the archduke’s car, hit the third car in the procession, and then…
The blackly comic aspect of this is: the cyanide that Čabrinović, Princip, and the rest of the conspirators were carrying had expired, and all the pills did was make them vomit.
The river Čabrinović jumped into? It was 4 inches deep.
And, of course, the only reason Princip was able to shoot Ferdinand in the first place was that the Archduke’s driver turned down the wrong street, directly in front of Princip, and then stalled the car while trying to turn around. If Ferdinand had been in a Mercedes, would World War I have been averted? Or would it have been some other “damn thing in the Balkans“?
Hello. My name is Patricia Gonzalez.
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011You killed my brother. Prepare to receive a strongly worded diplomatic message.
(Come on, do you really need a hattip?)
(Sipsey Street Irregulars has been on Gunwalker like a fat man on an all-you-can-eat buffet, but I want to be sure to keep this in front of you, my regular readers. Also my irregular readers; as I often tell you, I find Dr. Pepper and Cherry Coke Zero tend to…get things moving, for those of you in that group.)
What China needs…
Thursday, September 15th, 2011(Apologies to Weer’d for stepping into his territory.)