Category: Bad News

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Bad News

Maryland’s House of Representatives followed the state Senate’s lead and passed a ban on Glocks — far be it for me to agree with anything that the Maryland legislature does, but...
#ButtUglyGuns

Widow sues after husband was killed when he wore 20-lb chain in hospital room where she was having MRI scan — Charles Darwin, call your office.

A question to one of the agony aunts in the newspaper:

Am I being prissy if I say no to having a threesome? — Yes you are, and that’s not a Bad Thing.

Suspect in $11 Million Minnesota Fraud Scheme Disappears — “Abdirashid Ismail Said avoided being ordered to surrender his passport by paying the unconditional bond amount of $150,000. The conditional bond, which would have required him to surrender his passport, was set at $50,000.  Investigators had voiced concerns that Said had a wife and child living in Nairobi, Kenya, and it was possible he could flee, hide, or prevent officials from executing the warrant.”

You have to ask yourself this question.  The scrote is charged with embezzling $11 million, and is hit with a chump change bail amount.  He has family still living in Kenya… and people are shocked — shocked! — when he disappears?  Whoever set his bail should have to spend an amount of time in jail equal to what Said would have served, no bail, no early release, just for being either a moron or a co-conspirator.

FFS.  What time does the range open, again?

Ask Me Again

Psychos, Shootin' Time

…why I never walk out of my house without carrying a gun:

A knife-wielding maniac was shot and injured by cops after he started terrorizing a New York City grocery store overnight, the NYPD said Monday.

The suspect was shot outside the City Fresh Market near 120th Street in Harlem just after 1:30 a.m. when he repeatedly refused to drop the 13-inch kitchen blade, according to cops.

The man had been thrown out of the grocery store some time earlier after getting into an argument with someone inside.  He later showed up brandishing the knife, police said.  Surveillance video obtained by Pix11 captured the man lingering outside the sliding doors and waving the weapon as workers huddled inside.

When police arrived on the scene, the man allegedly kept pointing the knife in their direction before an officer fired.  The knifeman took a bullet to his abdomen, was taken to a hospital for surgery and remains in a critical condition.

Sorry, but faced with a similar situation, I’m not going to wait around for the cops to show up.  Wave a knife at me, especially one like that, and whatever happens after that is on you.

I’m not boasting or whatever;  I’m stating the obvious.  Gawd know I don’t want to shoot someone.  But I really don’t want to be stabbed just because I happen to be at the supermarket.

RFI: Arc Hacked

Bad News

I usually use the “https://archive.is/” link to get through to the silly paywalled newspaper articles at the Daily Mail, but the site appears to have been hacked by Russians or Serbians or others of the Cyrillic persuasion.

Does anyone have an alternate that does the same thing?

Mini-Roundup

Bad News

I know I swore off news roundups a while ago, but sheesh… oh, and no links because I don’t want to waste anyone’s time.


...thanks, but we have enough anti-Semitic socialist assholes over here already.  Also, drunks.


...he was old.  At that age, it doesn’t matter what killed him, because it could have been anything from a list of hundreds.


...JHC.


...oh, no, say it ain’t so.


...and whose fault is that?  [hint:  postal workers union]


...okay, that one contains a link.

And that’s it.

Talent, Gone

Bad News, Books & Movies

I see with immense sadness that writer Len Deighton has died.  Granted, the man had a long and fruitful life and career, but that doesn’t stop it from sucking.

While Deighton was best known for his espionage novels like The Ipcress Files and Funeral In Berlin (both made into memorable movies starring Michael Caine), my personal favorite was actually a WWII novel, Bomber, which if you haven’t read before, you should.  Be warned:  it is an absolutely heartrending story.

R.I.P.