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August 13, 2012
Overnight Open Thread (8-13-2012)Does the US Really Have an Out of Control Shooting Problem? Well that's always the justification from the Left for yet more gun control laws but when you look at this chart, the absolute number of shooting deaths is actually rather low compared to all the other methods of killing available to even a minimally competent murder-death-killer. And is basically the same as it was in 1976 despite the US population growing by almost 50%. As Bruce McQuain points out "in 2010 more people were beaten to death by fists ( 758 ) than were killed by "other guns", aka rifles of any sort". So perhaps some kind of fist licensing is needed before another assault weapon ban. And when you divide 8,775 shooting deaths by the US population of 312.8 million, you find that statistically you have a 1 in 35, 714 chance of being killed with a Chance of dying from any kind of injury during the next year: 1 in 1,820 So you can see that being shot to death fits somewhere between falls and drowning as a cause of death. Not good but not necessarily a crisis suddenly requiring new Constitutionally-questionable laws.
Swedish Leftists Suddenly Discover the Utility of Bourgeois Marriage So Swedish author, Stieg Larsson, who wrote the popular Millennium trilogy died in 2004 right as his popularity was taking off. He and his So I guess those bourgeois were on to something after all. And not to go full-on Burkean here but maybe, just maybe social traditions aren't just arbitrary rules set down by the elite - but are solutions to common human problems that have been worked out over millennia. But hey progressives always know better than everyone else who has ever lived. If You Want To Enjoy An Artist's Work... Never find out their political views if you can help it. And that applies to George R.R. Martin as well: Martin, an avowed Democrat from Bayonne, N.J. who has described President Obama as "the most intelligent president we've had since Jimmy Carter", doesn't often write about politics on his blog, but when he does, it is usually to speak about something he feels strongly about, be it TSA screenings or the Affordable Care Act. Should You Ignore Your Oven Dial When Cooking? Well take any listed cooking temperature with a huge grain of salt. You'd be forgiven for thinking that 350 on the dial means 350 in the oven. You'd be wrong, though. When you set an oven to 350 degrees, there isn't a single spot inside of it that stays at 350 degrees for the duration of a bake session. To say this reviewer hated Chris Brown's latest album would be an unrealistically optimistic view of it. Le Horreur: Pictures of VS Model Doutzen Kroes UNRETOUCHED! Kroes posing in various VS swimsuits -- do reveal the unmistakable idiosyncrasies of natural beauty: a veiny hand, lighting imperfections, stray pieces of hair. You can also spot glimpses of the flesh-colored thong that Kroes is wearing underneath each suit, which we assume is for sanitary reasons if different girls are modeling the same suits. Prepare yourself to see a lot of sharp elbows and veiny hands. The Yahoo AoSHQ group. Bla bla bla. And don't forget about the Job Bank. And my twitter thang. Tonight's post brought to you by legal effectiveness: Notice: Posted by permission of AceCorp LLC. Please e-mail overnight open thread tips to maetenloch at gmail. Otherwise send tips to Ace. | Recent Comments
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