Hopalong?

I have parents. One is asleep on the couch, the other is reading my Monitors before I get a chance to. rolls eyes.

Man with bloodstained weapons let into US from Canada. It worked, because he was a citizen.

Lock up your elderly country music artists. We have hundreds of crazy-looking guys with bloody chainsaws and all the Homeland Insecurity billions can buy will hardly slow them down, apparently. Send 'em in, boys!

Hopalong?

I had an argument with the ground, and my foot lost. You guys are lucky I don't have a digital camera, else I'd be posting lurid photos of my injuries like ita.

Man with bloodstained weapons let into US from Canada. It worked, because he was a citizen.

That is quite possibly the most bugfuck insane-looking mug shot I've ever seen. Certainly in the top five. Someone crosses the border looking like that, carrying (among other things) a blood-dripping chainsaw, and they detain him for two hours and then let him go because his papers are in order and he doesn't appear to have broken any border-crossing laws? Guh?

You guys are lucky I don't have a digital camera, else I'd be posting lurid photos of my injuries like ita.

Let's set up chickswithbruises.com and ...

Okay, let's not.

Me: "Three! Three revisions!"

Coworkers: "Uh oh."

Me: "There. Are. Four! Lights!"

This reminds me that I meant to link to the most recent MacHall strip. (Warning: Language) [link]

Someone crosses the border looking like that, carrying (among other things) a blood-dripping chainsaw, and they detain him for two hours and then let him go because his papers are in order and he doesn't appear to have broken any border-crossing laws? Guh?

have they never heard of probable cause? I mean, the one time where they actually HAVE it, and they don't use it. I hate to say it, but if he had been a person of color, you can bet your ass that they would have actuall done something.

My understanding is that NOTHING CAN STOP THE WARMING.

OK - a little late, but this is a meme that is spreading I want to answer; it is technically true, but in a way that is not nearly as bad as it sounds.

Some global warming has already occured. Some additional amounts are already irreverisble locked in. But the amount of global warming that is "locked in" is not the amount in the doomsday scenarios. If humanity chooses, we can turn it around well short of civilization ending disaster. Global warming is not an on-off switch; it is a continuoum of effects. It is not too late to preserve our ability do agriculture outdoors, and you know some of the basic things we need for survival.

Okay, let's not.

Yeah, just think of the craxy e-mail feedback we'd get.

I hate to say it, but if he had been a person of color, you can bet your ass that they would have actuall done something.

Fuck yeah. I have an acquaintance who's Japanese-American, born in Wisconsin, raised in Hawaii, came back to the mainland and went to Harvard. One weekend he and some friends went up to Canada for a day; nobody brought their passports, all the white guys got waved through both ways, but he very nearly didn't make it back into the US at all (this was back in the early 80s, very pre-9/11).

My friend did have his driver's license and Harvard ID, which proved that he was enrolled at an accredited US university that won't enroll you or give you an ID unless you're either a citizen or a resident alien with all your paperwork in order; he was accompanied by a carful of white people with identical IDs, all okayed and waved through by the US Border Patrol and all promising to sign notarized statements and swear on Bibles that he was who he said he was. And still. Three or four hours of wanting to know how he could be at Harvard and how could he think of crossing the border without a green card, and who did he think he was fooling claiming to be a citizen (n.b. - he has very faint traces of a Wisconsin accent).