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The Song of the Furies

Witnesses to them that died, The blood avengers at his side, The Furies’ troop forever stands. Aeschylus was more right than he knew. I’ll leave it to Gabby Giffords to explain what this post is about:...

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Gun control: No easy solution…but can we at least talk about it?

I understand that gun control, like many issues we face today, doesn’t lend itself to an easily arrived at, universally agreed upon solution. Good people can, and do, disagree…and crazy, unhinged...

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Kelly Ayotte: The personification of everything that’s wrong with today’s...

To say that Kelly Ayotte has had a very, very bad couple of weeks would be an understatement. It wasn’t bad enough that she voted against a universal background check bill favored by 91% of Americans...

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Epic Fail

Some moron is coming to NYC to give away shotguns. The man behind an effort to put free shotguns in the hands of homeowners says he’ll dole them out in the Big Apple by the end of the year — and the...

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The 2nd Amendment: The Founding Fathers’ biggest mistake

  ….The fact of the matter is that the Founding Fathers made a HUGE mistake in saddling us with the 2nd Amendment….  In the late 18th century, the 2nd Amendment made sense. Calling 911 wasn’t an...

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Why the Second Amendment is neither sacrosanct nor inviolable

(more at What Would Jack Do?) The post Why the Second Amendment is neither sacrosanct nor inviolable appeared first on The Agonist.

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The Alex Jones Show: Brought to you by the makers of Thorazine

I care about Alex Jones and his worldview about as much as I care about the Green Bay Packers…which is to say not at all. The man’s a blithering idiot, a brain-dead meat sack with the intellectual...

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Saturday Night Jukebox- Much Ado about Nothing

Any rant or obsessive/paranoid tune will do to let off steam, even manic optimism…… I’ll start with Marvin Gaye Ray Charles – “Hit the Road Jack” a little out of sync but still worth it The post...

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#YesAllWomen

By now, you’ve read or heard about the terrible tragedy in Santa Barbara last week: some rich white kid shot up a college campus apparently missed the one thing that would validate his entire...

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Wild West Warfare in Waco

America’s escalating reliance on firearms as a means of settling petty arguments ratcheted up another level this weekend, when at least five biker gangs engaged in an all-out gun battle in Waco, Texas....

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