This describes today’s gun control ‘announcement’ pretty well, I think:
Long story short: Obama's plan to close the alleged gun show loophole isn't to close it. It's just to tell people it's kinda sorta closed.
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) January 5, 2016
…and at that it’s a bit more sensible than I frankly expected from the President, honestly. I wonder if he’s feeling well? Or maybe some of his staffers – the ones who will need to find jobs next year – talked him down…
Most recent example:
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Jan. 4, 2015) – A woman suffered a heart attack during a New Year’s Eve celebration at a downtown Indianapolis bar, but a customer’s complaint about the response fueled a social media firestorm.
Via Memeorandum. I actually feel mildly bad about the customer who complained. She comes across as an unmitigated jackass, of course, but I feel slightly bad anyway. Mostly because it’s close enough to Christmas that I still get to be uncomfortably aware that Jesus probably wouldn’t want me to join a digital torch-bearing mob.
Anyway, moral of the story: if you can’t control what you say on social media, don’t communicate via social media. This gig ain’t for the reckless. …Or the timid, either.
It has become an unholy place, given over to abominations.
Tucker Christon fondly remembers the bags of steaming-hot bagels his family shared growing up in Fresh Meadows, Queens. But when he moved back to the city 10 years ago, a nefarious trend had overtaken bagel eaters in New York: People were scooping out their bagels, as a way to cut down on carbs.
This is not how this works.
The White House on Monday referred to an armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon as a “local law enforcement matter.”
Spokesman Josh Earnest’s comments come even though the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has taken charge of the response to the incident along with state and local agencies.
Continue reading The White House does federalism wrong in the Oregon standoff.
Via Reason comes this exercise in badfun: to summarize, a bunch of tenants informed on their landlord to the State (in this case, the LA city housing department) because they thought that the landlord was letting one of the other tenants list her space on the short-term rental site Airbnb. The State agreed, and told the landlord to stop abetting weekend rentals. And then the State told the tenants who complained that they themselves were in illegally divided apartments, and that the tenants would have to move somewhere else forthwith.
Moral of the story: Keep yer damn traps shut next time, ya idjits.
But I’m still coasting on what is technically my vacation. Admittedly, it was a more hectic and Sleep Madness-prone vacation than I’d like, but there’s no whining in blogging. …OK, yes, that is totally a lie. But still.
More posting today and regular schedule tomorrow. Hope everybody had a good holiday season.
I know, but it’s a serious question. Our toaster is on its last legs and never really did what we wanted to anyway; and it turns out that my wife and I both agree that it’d just make more sense to get a toaster oven to replace it. Only thing is, neither of us really know anything in particular about toaster ovens.
So. To the Internet! I figure that somebody here has an informed opinion on the subject; and it’s always nice to give solicited advice on a slightly esoteric topic, so no worries there that I’m imposing. Price isn’t that much of a consideration, at least at the sub-$200 range. Although, at the top of that range, I’d want something that I could then take for granted for the next couple of decades…
This post of mine took longer than you might think to put up: it’s rather difficult to type when you’re only using two middle fingers.
Mr. Lucas appeared particularly unhappy with the direction the “Star Wars” franchise has taken since he sold the rights to it, along with Lucasfilm, his company, to Disney for $4 billion. He compared the sale to a breakup and a divorce.
The kind where one of the parties involved has to put out a restraining order… hey, I AM being measured in my response. Lucas literally called Disney ‘white slavers’ in this interview. As long as I don’t go more over-the-top than he did, I’m golden.
Moe Lane Continue reading Quote of the Day, George Lucas Is Upset That Star Wars No Longer Sucks edition.
It’s 2016. Which means that it’s time to take all of this [expletive deleted] more seriously. Note that I did not say ‘entirely seriously:’ there’s still room for things like this tweet.
Tremble, political journos: our days of insisting it's not even 2016 yet are swiftly coming to an end
— Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy) January 1, 2016
But the days of hibernation are at an end.
