Turns out, the IRS was screening not-for-profit tax-exempt applications for words like “occupy” and “open source” and “medical marijuana” as well as “Tea Party,” out of concern that these might be money-making operations. Even some Republicans are now willing to admit that the IRS was not targeting conservative groups after all: “We haven’t proved political […]
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Posted inGun Club
What Goes Up Must Come Down
What better way to celebrate our nation’s birth than through the exercise of our 2nd Amendment rights? A 7-year-old boy was seriously wounded Thursday at a Fourth of July celebration in Virginia after someone evidently fired a gun in the air. Police said that the boy was walking with his father near Swift Creek Reservoir […]
Posted inHealth
An Incurable Fungal Disease That Eats Your Brain! Yet Another Reason Not to Live in the Southwest.
Nature once again struggles to bring “short” back into the Hobbesian equation: But his most life-threatening encounter has been with coccidioidomycosis, or valley fever, for which he is being treated here. Coccidioidomycosis, known as “cocci,” is an insidious airborne fungal disease in which microscopic spores in the soil take flight on the wind or even […]
Posted inNews
195,000 Jobs Added in June, as US Remains Not Europe
The US economy added 195,000 jobs in June, and the prior two months’ estimates were revised upward, bringing the three-month average to 196,000 a month. More than half the jobs were added in low-wage sectors like restaurants, retail, and employment services, the kind of jobs people resort to when better paying ones aren’t available. That’s […]
Posted inMedia
Obama Nominates 3 to Top Appeals Court. How Dare He?!
From the front page of the New York Times website: Um, since when did the media start characterizing a president nominating judges as some sort of daring partisan act? I know that’s how Republicans must view this, because Republicans apparently think that only Republican presidents are allowed to nominate federal judges. But one would have […]
Posted inOh, You Kids!
Man Ejected from Disney World After Leaving Hollow-Point-Bullet-Loaded Gun on Dinosaur Ride
Oops… A Walt Disney World park guest found a loaded gun in the seat of a ride at the Animal Kingdom that had fallen out of a man’s back pocket on Sunday. A grandmother handed a Cobra .380-caliber semiautomatic pistol about noon to a park attendant, who immediately contacted security and the Orange County Sheriff’s […]
Posted inPolitics
Oklahoma House Leader Apologizes to “the Jews” (for Using the Phrase “Jew Me Down”)
In debating a bill that would repeal a 70-year-old ban on retailers selling loss-leaders, Oklahoma House of Representatives Co-Majority Leader Dennis Johnson (a Republican, of course) argued that service is more important than price at his appliance store, explaining of his customers: “They might try to Jew me down on a price.”About 20 seconds later, […]
Posted inFood and Drink
Eating From the Garden
Goldy Thinnings from my second sowing of radishes alongside an early harvest from my first. I like radishes just fine and all that, but their real attraction is how fast they grow. While it’s not exactly instant gratification, few vegetables go from seed to table quite as fast as radishes. Even faster if you eat […]
Posted inGirls Only!
True Crime: “Gun Located in Suspect Vagina”
Guns don’t kill people… An Oklahoma woman arrested Monday on drug charges had a loaded handgun hidden in her vagina, according to police. The weapon was discovered during a search of Christie Dawn Harris, 28, by a female officer with the Ada Police Department. According to a police report, the cop spotted the handle of […]
Posted inHorrors
Nightclub Fires Don’t Kill People, People Kill People
At least 233 people have died in a fire that swept through a nightclub in Santa Maria, a university town in southern Brazil. Many of the victims succumbed to the toxic fumes, or were crushed to death in the crowd’s panicked efforts to escape. The fire reportedly started when a band set off fireworks. It’s […]
Posted inPolitics
NRA Now “Very Supportive” of Tighter Background Checks
See, this is how the political game is played. President Barack Obama proposes more sweeping gun control regulations, and the NRA ends up giving ground on the notion of closing the “gun show loophole”: The president of the National Rifle Association (NRA) on Thursday said that the organization was “generally supportive” of strong background checks […]