There have been 36 mass murders with guns since 1982. Mother Jones has put together a map which shows where they have occurred. There have been murders from Florida in the Southeast to Washington in the Northwest, from Connecticut in the Northeast to California in the West. The “heartland” hasn’t been immune either: there have …
Thanks to a commenter at Scalzi’s Whatever, I downloaded a copy of an e-pub converter/reader called Calibre, which is open-source and free. It takes a little thought to figure out which buttons you need to click to get where you want to go (not a lot; it’s pretty intuitive), but it works like a charm …
Apparently there’s some sentiment floating around the Internet from the right-wing that we should just grieve for the victims of the murders in Aurora and not address the politics of gun control, out of “respect” or some such crap. It is crap. I suspect the dead would encourage us to address the issue of controlling …
The price of a haircut at my neighborhood barbershop has gone up $0.50 to $13.50 plus tax. Worse, I’m not yet a senior citizen, so I can’t get the discount. What’s Romney gonna do about this, huh? Mitt, you think a tax cut for the 1% is gonna help me pay for my haircuts? Tell …
Building your own coffin indeed. What’s it like to be an asset-stripper and life-destroyer, Mitt?
The day of reckoning was today. My sister and I went to the ENT clinic today (at 3:15, thereby guaranteeing we’d be stuck in some traffic on the way back home). After a half-hour wait we got in to see Drs. Sniezek and Kolb, who were the surgeons who did the cutting last week. Dr. …
Fed Chairman Bernanke testified to the Senate Banking Committee today and basically said nothing useful. More importantly, he didn’t say he’d do anything useful either. Democrats, continuing a recent pattern, were less forceful in their calls for additional action by the Fed. They received from Mr. Bernanke only the assurance that the Fed took the …
It fit into the Mini, but not easily! This sucker will replace the one on the front door which keeps jumping the track. Now if I can keep small kids and dogs from throwing their full weight against it maybe I won’t have to replace this one anytime soon.
I used to know better than to go to the commissary on payday. Somehow I forgot today was the 15th of the month. My goodness was that line long! Also, the Geo’s gas tank only holds about 8 gallons; the Mini’s holds 13. Therefore it costs a lot more to fill up the Mini than …
I am so going to try to duplicate this sauce!