Tag: Violence
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Hold onto your hats on January 6th
It sure would be nice if it were January 20th already. Unfortunately, we still have more than two weeks to go. To no one’s surprise, Trump isn’t going quietly. In the interim he plans to make things as dangerous as possible for our country. It’s also likely that once out of office he’ll spend most…
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It’s going to get crazy after the election
I’ve discussed many times my concerns for our upcoming election and specifically for the time between the election and Inauguration Day. I’m hardly alone in thinking it will be the most dangerous time in our country since the Civil War. Maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised that the results won’t be seriously contested, and a preponderance…
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Review: Django Unchained
There are movies you love to hate and movies you hate to love. Django Unchained falls into the latter category. I wish I could loathe this ultraviolent movie where racism in the South just prior to the Civil War is its unrelenting focus. The guilty truth is I loved pretty much everything about this movie,…
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Civilized countries should not play football
Yesterday’s Washington Post had a dispiriting article about a draftee football player, Kyle Long, all six feet and 313 pounds of him. Kyle’s father is hall of famer Howie Long. Football runs in the Long family apparently, as Kyle is a third generation football player in his family. Kyle will be a new offensive lineman…
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It doesn’t have to happen here
The senseless and tragic massacre of 32 people at Virginia Tech yesterday underscores what the comic Eddie Izzard has said about guns and violence: Guns don’t kill people, people kill people, and monkeys do too (if they have a gun). Or as I put it myself in this entry: Firearms make it much, much easier…
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Guns Don’t Kill People, But They Do Make It Easier
Maybe there was something to be said for the swashbucklers. It’s true that to do their job properly they had to kill other people. But at least when they did the dirty deed they were in their opponents’ faces. They got to see their victims die up close and personal. There was no escape from…
Occam's Razor 