Comments on: Open thread 7/4/23

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 12:36:54 +0000

Make that “road rage.”

I hope what Heinlein wrote comes to pass i.e. “An armed society is a polite society.”

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 12:31:05 +0000

Here’s another barometer of how things are going.

With the passage of Florida’s Constitutional Carry bill in June 2023, 26 states now permit carrying a weapon without a license.

Funny thing, though, while there are a few mass shooters here and there (and they’re mostly nut cases of one kind or the other), all of these millions of people who can now carry guns have not rushed out into the streets to gun down everyone in sight, duels aren’t regularly being fought, and every instance of road range doesn’t end up in a gun battle.

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 11:26:09 +0000

You want a good barometer of how many Americans think things are going in the good ol’ U.S. of A.?

Here’s one.

See https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/fbi-gun-sales-over-1-million-47-months-straight

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 05:46:17 +0000

The Cocaine Caper Corps keeps changing their explanations.

First, it was found in the vicinity of the White House, so everyone assumed it was dropper or thrown onto the lawn; lots of suspects.
Anyway, it was a common anesthetic solution; except it was bagged powder.
Then it was found in the library.
But, hey, it clearly belonged to Donald Trump jr. (no, really, someone said that with a straight face).

Now a source says it was in a staff work area.

It hasn’t been in the kitchen with Mrs. White yet, but give them time.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/07/04/white-house-cocaine-story-takes-another-bizarre-twist-as-it-changes-again-n771146

By: huxley

huxley — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 05:44:18 +0000

Last night, in my pursuit of all things French, I watched Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” (2021). Today I watched it again.

It’s a difficult film to explain. Imagine that the “New Yorker” magazine was started by Bill Murray as a French travelogue supplement to his father’s newspaper in Kansas. It’s the sort of idea only Wes Anderson could come up with and build a film upon.

It takes place in a French town wonderfully named “Ennui-sur-Blasé” literally, “Boredom on Apathetic (River)” and in the “Café Sans Blague,” the “No Kidding Café.”

I could say a lot more, but I’ll let it go and just say this is the most satisfying Wes Anderson film I’ve seen. He is golden in his ability to recreate the “New Yorker” world from this fey French perspective.

I’ll leave you with editor Bill Murray’s advice to his stable of expatriate writers:
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Just try to make it sound like you wrote it that way on purpose.
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Words to live by.

By: huxley

huxley — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 03:07:12 +0000

Call me a cock-eyed optimist, but I don’t think the Biden Crime Family can skate forever.

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:44:04 +0000

the film version of clue was amusing with the alternate endings,

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:29:32 +0000

well his sister ashley was recorded having powder issues back around 2009 (I think radar had it) but never mind,

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:27:18 +0000

Whoever it was, this is obviously a major security issue in our nation’s executive office.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:09:32 +0000

@ Kate > “I’m not the only person wondering WHO left the bag of cocaine in the White House library.”

My money is on Professor Plum.

https://www.lovetoknow.com/life/lifestyle/characters-board-game-clue
“He would be the smartest man on the planet if he wasn’t so scatterbrained. Slightly balding and middle-aged, Peter Plum can’t remember where he’s been for the last five minutes of any part of any day,”