Tag: nra
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D.A.H.O.F: Jamie Gilt
D U M B – A S S H A L L OF F A M E N O M I N A T I O N I shouldn’t need an excuse to circle back around to my poor, mistreated, attention-starved blog–or the millions, thousands, hundreds, dozens of eager readers who breathlessly await my oracular…
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Minneapolis Falcon Heights: Time For The NRA to Walk The Walk
Another day, and another American gunned down for having the audacity to be black. Against this latest atrocity, and apart from so much that needs to be said about sympathy for Philando Castile’s friends and loved ones, as well as the angry recriminations that should rightfully be directed at the Falcon Heights Police officer who…
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Suck It Up, Orlando!
My timeline is chock full of posts clarifying that the Orlando shooter did not use an AR-15, but a Sig MCX .223–and not only that, but we need to know that neither is, by strict definition, an assault rifle. Whew! I don’t know about you, but now that we’ve got THAT all cleared up, I’m…
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Only An Idiot Thinks They’ll Take Your Guns
These posts keep showing up in my timeline, and here’s the disclaimer: I wish I had the reserve to keep my mouth shut, because I’m passionately indifferent about gun control. It is politically untenable and pragmatically impossible. The “war on drugs” has cost us billions, with billions more to be spent, and for what: we…
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Dumb Ass Hall of Fame: Charles Cotton
“Charles Cotton says exactly what you’d expect, yet the speed and heartlessness of it is still startling.” –Esquire Magazine. It seemed fitting to revive my old “Dumb Ass Hall of Fame” feature from the early days of this blog, after NRA Board Member and Texas (of course) Attorney Charles Cotton pretty much forced me to…
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Doh! After Shooting, NRA Tweets About Kids Having Fun With Guns
A 9-Year-Old at a Shooting Range, a Spraying Uzi and Outrage These guys are just masters of tact and timing. I should probably save this for use as a D.A.H.O.F. post, but…. Not that these corporate shills won’t earn a nomination some other way. In Wake of Arizona Uzi Killing, NRA Tweets About Kids Having…
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Welcome To Night Vale on Poetry Genius
Here’s something fun. Something weird and cool and fun… http://poetry.rapgenius.com/Welcome-to-night-vale-pilot-annotated#note-2515385
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Kitten Gun
Just because I think Joe The Plumber is a tool doesn’t mean that I embrace strict gun control. Some guns are magnificently AWESOME.
Old Road Apples 