Anyone who says differently is selling something.
Simon: Captain's a good fighter, he must know how to handle a sword. Zoe: I think he knows which end to hold.
'Shindig'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Feb 28, 2018 7:51:31 am PST #22606 of 30002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Steph L. - Feb 28, 2018 7:52:18 am PST #22607 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Time is money, money is power, power is pizza, and pizza is knowledge.
EpicTangent - Feb 28, 2018 8:11:47 am PST #22608 of 30002
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
If time heals all wounds and time is money, then money should heal all wounds.
Jesse - Feb 28, 2018 8:12:47 am PST #22609 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Life is pain, highness.
Beverly - Feb 28, 2018 9:39:20 am PST #22610 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Regarding the right's wish to implement the "arm everybody (but the black folks)" plan, I've been kind of stewing in, "...but, what about 'thou shalt not kill'? Does that only apply to 'those like us,' and not to 'them'?"
Laura - Feb 28, 2018 10:12:55 am PST #22611 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is natter.
Regarding the right's wish to implement the "arm everybody (but the black folks)" plan, I've been kind of stewing in, "...but, what about 'thou shalt not kill'? Does that only apply to 'those like us,' and not to 'them'?"
Yes, I have seen much discussion that the quick road to gun control is for blacks to start carrying, everywhere. Which freaks me out completely, because I am freaked out by anyone carrying other than like on a shooting range, or mountainside during hunting season.
Thought it was nice that Dick's Sporting goods is changing policy. No doubt a corporate decision well researched and completely $$ related and not a moral decision, but works for me. The corporations shedding their NRA affiliations is cool too.
eta: Gud's explosives kinda look like my doorbell
Beverly - Feb 28, 2018 10:38:36 am PST #22612 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Gud's picture does kind of look like the place is wired to go splodey. Glad it's deceiving.
And yes! Dick's Sporting Goods. Also yes! Lehigh University for rescinding 45's honorary degree.
NoiseDesign - Feb 28, 2018 10:51:14 am PST #22613 of 30002
Our wings are not tired
No doubt a corporate decision well researched and completely $$ related and not a moral decision
I'm going to give them credit and say it might be a moral decision, businesses do make them. They found out one of their stores sold the killer a gun, not the one used in the shooting, but still they sold to him. That's the type of thing that can lead to a crisis of conscience in a CEO and those things do lead to change. I know that I am not much more likely to go into a Dick's if I need anything they might carry.
Tom Scola - Feb 28, 2018 10:52:55 am PST #22614 of 30002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Dick's made the same announcement in 2012, after Sandy Hook, but they say this time will be different.
Calli - Feb 28, 2018 10:57:53 am PST #22615 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Out of wine comes truth
Out of truth the vision clears
And with vision soon appears
A grand design.
From the grand design
You can understand the world
And when you understand the world
You need a lot more wine.
And in more guns in schools news, a teacher in Georgia just barricaded himself in his classroom and started shooting. No deaths, but it does give a little more context to the "arm the teachers" theory. [link]