“Every time identity politics has been used by any faction in human history for any reason violence eventually follows. No matter how detailed and intricate the justification, no matter how reasonable it can be made to sound as a way to correct for unequal social conditions and historical injustice, it always ends in the same foul basement of mutual fear, loathing, and depravity.” — William Ray
Follow the link and read how “wealth privilege” has been turned into “White privilege”.
You would have to have a heart of stone not to burst into delighted laughter at this story:
Last weekend, the man told his wife he was going out drinking with work colleagues, when in reality he was travelling to a motel on the outskirts of town.
Now go read the rest.
I never tire of pointing out to people that Leftism is the only socio-political philosophy in which intent is adjudged superior to consequence. In simpler terms, it means that quotes like this are on the money:
“It is amazing how far the left will go to hide the truth. Identity politics is killing this country’s competitiveness in the world and all the left cares about is quotas.”
Posted by: Ted | Aug 25, 2018 11:09:44 AM
…but miss the point, in that Leftism doesn’t care about the malevolent consequences of identity politics because the “intent” behind said politics is noble, and therefore whatever happens thereafter is irrelevant (see: Mao’s Great Leap Forward, Stalin’s destruction of the kulaks, Pol Pot’s forced agrarianism, etc. ad infinitum). In other, still-simpler words, it’s not amazing; it’s policy.
Communistatis delenda est.
From Brit Reader Quentin, asking (for a Brit) a hypothetical question:
“Do you have any thoughts on which pistol to use with wildlife, not goblins? After all, shooting snakes and other critters was one of the main uses of pistols.”
My answer:
It kinda depends on the size of the critters. Basically, a .22LR will handle 99% of critter-elimination needs (shotshells in the case of reptiles). Larger critters may need a little more, but I struggle to think of many.
Myself, I carry a little NAA Mini-revolver in .22 Magnum (loaded with two CCI shotshells and three hollowpoints) if I’m out doing my morning walk (angry unleashed dogs, for the shooting of), or if I’m ever out in an area where there may be snakes and such. 
(I’ve actually shot a couple of snakes with the rimfire shotshell, and the result is that the worm just goes limp — lights-out with a single shot.)
But any rimfire revolver would do, of course:
That’s a Colt Peacemaker with .22 LR / .22 WMR cylinders. For us mere mortals who don’t want to spend two grand on a rimfire plinker, there’s always the cheaper option, such as the Ruger SP101 double-action:
… or the single-action Ruger Bearcat (.22 LR only):
…or Single Six (like the Colt above, with the LR/WMR interchangeable cylinders):
…as well as the usual S&W K-22s, etc. (like this “Heritage” model):
[drooooool]…
Where was I? Oh yeah, critter guns…
If anyone has any other suggestions, I’ll happily entertain them in Comments.
From Myron Magnet at City Journal (on another topic):
“Don’t you think the whole effort of modernism—in architecture, in literature, in music, in painting—might have been a huge dead end, from which Western culture will painfully have to extricate itself?”
Longtime Readers of my fevered scribblings and rants will know that I am an implacable enemy of Modernism (and its bastard child, Postmodernism), so to me, Magnet’s question should really be a statement, with no conditional verbs.
Modernism has been a spiritual dead end, in its subjugation of beauty and form into soulless utilitarianism and the inscrutable abstract, and wherever its proponents (Le Corbusier, Duchamps, Von Der Rohe, Kandinsky and all the other charlatans) might be today, I hope the temperature is set to “BROIL”.
Kandinsky: Garden of Love II
As for Magnet’s primary thesis (that of the imperilment of free speech), I think I’ve covered it already in my recent “Kicking Down Fences” post, but that shouldn’t stop you from reading Magnet’s greatly-superior take on the topic.
From the Knuckledragger (one of my favorite reads) on some study or other:
“Personally, I think this is full of shit.”
As do I. The title of the piece is: “Let the arguments begin.”
None from me. And this comment alone puts the man squarely into my foxhole:
“And as a side note concerning those folks that didn’t have any spare ammo to shoot with me, if I can’t walk out to my truck right fucking now and find at least a 20 round box of 45 and 357 stashed in there, I’ll kiss your ass.”
A couple months ago I found a loaded 1911 mag in the glove box. I have no idea how long it’s been in there…