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Gunplay

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Unbelievable. Well, unfortunately, not unbelievable: BURKESVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Authorities in southern Kentucky say a 2-year-old girl has been accidentally shot and killed by her 5-year-old brother, who was playing with a .22-caliber rifle he received as a gift. Kentucky State Police said the toddler was shot just after 1 p.m. CDT Tuesday in Cumberland […]

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Yet one more modest proposal

Monday, April 22, 2013

In all seriousness I submit that President Obama should send the following letter, or one like it, to the person was was recently elected to the Senate from Texas: Dear Senator Cruz: I am in receipt of your request for federal funds to help the victims of the recent explosion that took place in your […]

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Statistical questions

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Apparently, Wayne LaPierre said this yesterday. “The one thing a violent rapist deserves to face is a good woman with a gun,” he said. (via Washington Post) It would be interesting to know the following statistics: How many rapes are foiled on a weekly basis by good women with guns. (I am having a bit […]

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Can’t make this stuff up

Sunday, February 24, 2013

A few days ago, while writing about a local proposal to allow non-resident taxpayers to vote in local referenda, I engaged in a bit of slippery slope argumentation, wondering among other things, if corporate taxpayers would also get to vote and wondering if perhaps votes should be weighted: the greater the property, the greater the […]

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Republicans revenge comes up short

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

I didn’t realize it was Karl Marx that said “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce”, but apparently it was. But being liberals here, we won’t reject the aphorism on that account. But what happens when history begins as farce? Well, it turns out that when Republicans are at work, it returns as […]

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Victims

Friday, February 15, 2013

We live in bewildering times. As the Jefferson Airplane sang, logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead. I first became politically aware as the Civil Rights movement took center stage on the national scene. The forces of reaction took shelter behind a lot of arguments, but I can’t recall that any of them had the […]

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The NRA’s enemies list

Monday, February 4, 2013

If you can judge an organization by those it considers its enemies, and I think you can, then ones judgment of the NRA must be rather harsh. Check out the distinguished list here. Far more thorough than Nixon’s. I wish I could get on it. 

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Awesome

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Paul Simon sang that we live in an age of miracles and wonders. And we do. But we also live in an age of awe inspiring insanity. The Age of Reason, which spawned this great land, has given way to the Age of Unreason. The latest example, which breaks new ground in legal unreasoning, is […]

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Connecticut Truther

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

This woman almost became Connecticut’s Attorney General: Go to Martha Dean’s Facebook page. That will be the only time you read that sentence on Daily Ructions. Dean, the 2010 Republican nominee for Attorney General has since Monday appeared to use her Facebook page to boost the vile conspiracy vultures gathering over Newtown’s Sandy Hook elementary […]

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If this is failure, give me some

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Dick Armey’s attempt to take control of FreedomWorks is being portrayed as a failed coup attempt, but, personally, if I could get someone to pay me $400,000.00 a year to just stay away, I’d consider myself a success. Still, we on the left can take some satisfaction in knowing that so much of that right […]

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