Guns, guns.

Guns.

Guns.

One quibble with that last tweet. It wasn’t neck-tat guy who shot back at the church shooter. It was the older guy who lived across the street. Johny neck-tat drove the truck to chase him down.
But as for the rest- Yes.

Okay, didn't know.

Also, apparently this is a thing.

Wands

https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/966792848522797057

Walk it off.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2018-02-23

Evergreen State expects an enrollment drop. Can't imagine why people would prefer to not be on a campus with roving gangs of baseball bat wielders who threaten to beat the boogey man du jour.

https://hotair.com/archives/2018/02/21/evergreen-state-college-warns-18-drop-enrollment-next-year/

The dieters weren’t strictly monitored or required to stick to a rigid plan. Instead, they were offered 22 hour-long classes led by registered dietitians on how to follow their assigned diet without feeling deprived, as well as general advice on healthy eating.

But, wait, it gets better:

Both groups cut back but on average didn’t hold to the targets, based on interviews. The low-carb dieters reported eating, on average, about 246.5 grams of carbohydrates per day at the beginning of the trial. They got that down to an average of 97 at the three-month mark but crept back up to 132 by the end. The low-fat dieters were, on average, eating 87 grams of fat per day at the start. They were down to 42 after three months and inched up to 57 by the end.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/02/low-carb-vs-low-fat-both-led-to-12lb-loss-after-a-year-regardless-of-genes/

What we need is better sheriff's deputies, and probably better sheriffs, too. Instead of marching on Washington, they ought to march on the BCSO HQ.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/02/marjory-stoneman-douglas-high-school-resource-officer-resigns-stayed-outside-and-did-not-engage-shooter/

I had wondered where the resource officer was, and why the shooter was not confronted by said officer. And only one resource officer for a school of about 4,000 individuals? seems...thin.

I really would like this to be "fake news".

Over the weekend the Seattle Times jumped at a news tip: there was a Confederate flag flying beneath the American flag in the city's Greenwood neighborhood, and residents were very concerned.

Only, it turns out, it wasn't the Confederate flag at all. It was the state flag of Norway, and a group of friendly Norwegians were just trying to show their patriotism and support for their Olympic Team when their very concerned neighbors contacted local media.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/27472/seattle-residents-complained-about-confederate-emily-zanotti

Little Pink House trailer.

https://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/little-pink-house/

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2018/02/did-nyu-serve-racist-dinner-to.html

Apropos of this week, and because it's Friday: Lawyers, Guns and Money.

More idiocy: What happens when square roots become a felony.

A nice twitter link on why there's no sassy PuertoRican blacktinos(as) characters in a video game set in the Middle Ages located in a Czech village far, far away from anything else.

https://twitter.com/MikeStuchbery_/status/967066790139514881

Just tell the peons to cut a check.

And send in the banker to peel me a grape while you're at it.

This makes my head hurt. The Lovers of Science™ strikes again.

https://twitter.com/JustEric/status/967061361057509377

Hey Gog, ever wonder why no one wonders why the most powerful being in existence with access to the gold reserves of an infinite number of planets can never afford to pay for his own shit?

"can never afford to pay"

Yet if you ask you might very well hear something about 'doing God's work' - which by extension would make Him both greedy and lazy.

I have a cousin who ran a church out of his garage. Retired young. Drives a sports car.