The War on Cops

http://manhattan-institute.org/waroncops

Heather Macdonald's new book.

Note from Amy -- to buy at Amazon, here's a link: http://amzn.to/29rMm7u

Moar Dallas.

Scare video.

Bear this in mind on Friday.

Wait...this isn't Florida Man?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/campfire-bullet-accident-manitoba-1.3667068

That homicide rate thing is funny logic Crid.

It's true even if the homicide rate is small in 90+% of the cities and stays small but the homicide rate explodes in the 4 or 5 big cities with much higher "normal" rates.

Bet Chicago can say that when looking at city rates instead of inner city rates. Feel safer?

Meanwhile, Texas Rangers want $500 MILLION in tax subsidies so they can build a new stadium for themselves.

Five. Hundred. Million. Dollars.

Moving "Modern Love" piece:

After a Suicide, a Security Guard for the Heart

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/fashion/modern-love-suicide-security-guard.html?smid=tw-nytstyles&smtyp=cur&_r=0

TRANSformers (not a typo)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg0D1PpgCXs

Meanwhile, Texas Rangers want $500 MILLION in tax subsidies so they can build a new stadium for themselves.

Deer Dallas: do the right thing. Tell them "no".

Maybe it's just me, but a sophisticated 5-man sniper attack + bombs seems at odds with both the NRA and BLM. Thus ends my hot take.

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 8, 2016

The same people who literally blamed the NRA for the Orlando shooting while the blood was still being mopped up are today demanding that Black Lives Matter not be smeared by association with the violence in Dallas.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/437614/hypocrisy-and-dallas-shooting

Feminist Politician Says Swedish Men Rape By Choice, Migrants Rape By Ignorance

http://theduran.com/feminist-politician-says-swedish-men-rape-choice-migrants-rape-ignorance/

If mental gymnastics were an Olympic Sport, Sweden would have won by a landslide.

Justin Lin and Simon Pegg: Good news Mr Takei! We made Sulu gay! Just like you!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/george-takei-reacts-gay-sulu-909154

Seems like Congressional corruption is so rampant that an indictment is no longer newsworthy according to the NYTimes:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/sign-of-the-times-congresswoman-to-be-indicted-no-story-in-nyt/article/2595963

She would likely be my representative next January, after a redo on redistricting. The primary will be held in August, and there are two Democrats facing off against her. Interesting.

When I was a fourth-grade child watching Star Trek on a 20" black-and-white TV with rabbit ears, I couldn't tell that Sulu was gay.

I must not have been very sexually sophisticated, right? Because the erotic fascinations of adults in ludicrous ('Outer space!') theatrical entertainments were not obvious to me.

Yet, weirdly, I could tell that Scotty ('Engineer Scott,' to the cognoscenti) had done a three-way in college.

For Gog.

It was Darth.

Kinda funny: We become what we hate most, etc. Sad!

Thanks Crid, I had to go to the US News site to see the story. Wow, 24 counts. Corinne's out to set some sort of record!

The new Milennial Falcon:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgpKnMcWwAAy1xI.jpg:orig

"Yet, weirdly, I could tell that Scotty ('Engineer Scott,' to the cognoscenti) had done a three-way in college."

Congratulations. Could you tell where he'd been shot serving in WW2, or does your spider sense only apply to sexual peccadilloes?

"sexual peccadilloes"

I bet Bob In Texas runs over a bunch of those every Spring. The blacktop is warm, nature calls ...

I think it was the left. Unless it was the right. I didn't find out until the show had been off they air for forty years, but it explained the awkwardness of that one Jeffries Tube shot, which had always rankled.

I think it was the left. Unless it was the right. I didn't find out until the show had been off they air for forty years, but it explained the awkwardness of that one Jeffries Tube shot, which had always rankled.

Mr. Google, of course, knows the ep I'm thinking of without even being given the name, which is cool because I have no idea. I'm guessing it was season three, when there was no money for planetary surface stories because they knew they were going to be cancelled.

Like in real life, when they knew they couldn't afford a good design for the shuttle because the whole of NASA had no future anyway.