Loyal & Longtime Readers may be wondering why I’m not posting a series of Train Smash Women updates at this, the time of the Grand National at Aintree, Liverpool.
That’s because some spoilsport in the event’s admin decided to post, and enforce, a stricter dress code. The result has been that the female attire is now only dreadful, as opposed to the happily-catastrophic ones of the recent past.
No fun at all, really.
Some time ago I expressed my irritation about PJMedia’s fundraising machinations — i.e. by sticking most of their articles behind a paywall — which would be fine, if the articles were worth more than just a passing interest. To my mind, most of them aren’t. And in consequence, I see little reason to support PJMedia with any kind of subscription, despite their continuous blandishments to do so.
Yesterday, I linked to this article because it resonated with me as few of PJMedia’s articles do:
Then I went back to American Thinker‘s home page and looked over the rest of the articles:
I went and read every single one of them, and found them all to be uniformly excellent, not just in their analysis, but in that they made me aware of things I hadn’t known before, or else provided a foundation to some of my own opinions that I hadn’t bothered examining too closely (Twisted Psychology being a good example). Also, note the datelines of the articles: those are just some of the most recent articles posted.
I’ve known about American Thinker pretty much ever since they came into existence, but they were never a mainstream reading choice because I’m an idiot, and also because reading their material often makes my brain hurt (which, by the way, is a Good Thing for political commentary but a Bad Thing in literature #Proust #Pynchon).
No more.
So I cancelled one of my (underperforming) streaming TV channels, and redirected that money towards a sub for American Thinker. They deserve no less — and by the way, they are thus far the only online publication I’ve bothered to subscribe to. The others are, shall we say, less worthy.
This is priceless. Some mope armed himself with a .22 pistol and a couple boxes of ammo, and headed off to a church in Houston with the avowed aim of whacking the pastor thereof.
You can read the details of how he failed here, but please note the description of our would-be assassin in the headline:
Texas man with loaded gun, 100 rounds tackled by security at Houston church
You might think, after reading the above headline, that this was a simple case of ol’ Joe Bob getting upset with the pastor because the man of God was giving Joe Bob’s wife some extra-special pastoral counseling, if you get my drift.
Well, you’d probably be wrong because the scrote’s actual name is Emmanuel Ahsono Mbwavi, which — and y’all will forgive me for thinking this — does not sound like yer average Texas name: Billy Bob Johnson, yup; Jorge Morales, okay (especially in Houston); La’Marquis Washington, fer shurr (ditto).
Also, at time of writing we have no word on Mr. Mbwavi’s actual motive, but my immediate guess would be that it’s of an African nature.
Kudos, by the way, to the security guard for tackling the asshole and holding him for the cops.
No prizes for guessing, though, what my preferred outcome would have been (see the next post).
Sent to me once more by Reader Brad_In_IL, news of this happy event:
A licensed concealed carry holder shot and killed a man who broke into his home and charged at him early Monday.
The 33-year-old concealed carry license holder called 911 at 1:24 a.m. and told dispatchers he had shot an intruder inside his home in the 2200 block of East 103rd Street and had already begun performing CPR on the man, who had suffered a gunshot wound to the chest.
Good news:
Officers arrived and took over lifesaving measures, but the intruder, who remained a “John Doe” as of Monday evening, was pronounced dead at 1:43 a.m.
Even better news:
[Our Hero’s] home is across the street from the South Chicago (4th) District station.
Look, I know that there are few PhD candidates among the Violent Burglary Set, but even so… dude?
Anyway, a one-shot kill:
…and some applause, please:
Finally, according to the report:
Detectives are investigating the shooting.
Even in Chicago, I bet it’s going to set a record for “fastest investigation and clearing, ever.”
Your suggestions in Comments.
We gun owners often waste our time talk earnestly about the concept known as the “BBQ gun” (or “Governor’s BBQ gun”). In essence, this would be a nice-looking, quality handgun that would “show well” in a fancy holster — in other words, a description that no gun named “Glock” could ever satisfy.
Of course, people will suggest something like a shiny nickel Colt Single Action Army (Peacemaker) as the sine qua non:
…and I would be the last to disagree with that, to be sure, because it’s as pretty as a picture and would make a fine addition to one’s formal attire.
However, there are a few drawbacks to this, from a practical perspective. Firstly, there’s the price… yikes, and that’s for a new manufacture. Step back to a First Generation piece and well, you don’t wanna know. Next, we all know that while the SAA shoots the manly .45 Long Colt, as a self-defense gun it’s not what we’d call an optimal choice in terms of both capacity (6) and reloading speed (measured in geological time by comparison to the usual self-defense choices).
But that doesn’t matter because this is a “dress” gun — one could even be unkind and say it’s “ornamental”. There’s nothing wrong with that, of course; thinking from a girlie perspective, a pair of sexy Christian Louboutin shoes might be a perfect choice for the Governor’s BBQ Party, much less so for hiking in the mountains.
So getting back to the gun thing: all this was brought to mind when I got the latest sales promotion from the kids at Palmetto State Armory, which featured this:
Granted, this might be a little too show-offy for some (it certainly is for me), but you can’t deny that it’s not the worst-looking handgun you could carry on your hip at said event. Certainly, it’s more affordable than the nickel SAA above — like 10% of the SAA’s price — and yes I know, cheap guns don’t always make the very best choice for self-defense. But remember, the main thing about a BBQ gun is that it looks good on a formal occasion, not necessarily that it works that well as a self-defense piece.
See where I’m going, here? Discuss.