From Insty, talking about the New Domestic Terrorists:
Nobody wants to hear from parents. They’re terrorists for not complying with the desires of their betters.
Yeah, remember that to the Education Cartel, your kids belong to them, not to you — because you can’t be trusted to know what’s best for your kids.
From Glenn Reynolds:
“At some point, the government’s behavior is sufficiently illegitimate that people will start acting outside of the usual channels. We’re getting dangerously close to that point, and our feckless overclass either doesn’t know, or doesn’t care, or actively wants that to happen.”
He’s talking specifically about the attempt to muzzle Trump for the 2024 election, but in fact you could apply it to pretty much everything they’re doing right now, whether it’s gun control, primary school education, destruction of the oil industry or [fill in the blank].
… in this article, concerning over-penetration of self-defense loads:
“Bad guys make the best backstops.”
Read the whole thing: it’s packed full of commonsense and good advice.
…actually, an anonymous comment at Kenny’s place:
Feel free to indulge yourselves as you suggest in Comments which crimes would fit into this category. I can think of about a dozen, myself.
Seen in some newspaper article or other Somewhere On Teh Intarwebz (SOTI):
…a.k.a. the “You Don’t Say!” department.
That said, I once made a used-car salesman so angry that he challenged me to a fight outside the showroom. Connie just looked at him, then looked at me and said: “Just don’t kill him, okay?”
Challenge was withdrawn.
On life:
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going?” ― Tennessee Williams
Actually, by that definition, there’s no such a thing as a “present moment”.
Discuss among yourselves.
Afterthought: I apologize for the unwarranted gravity of this post. And now, we return to the topic of Salma Hayek’s boobs.