Link Salad, Just Because, Take 2
May. 10th, 2012 11:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chris_gerribLike the title says.
A) Of interest to gun people, and presented without comment, ammunition for the self-defense firearm.
B) In a reminder that the world is a small place, A web of privilege supports this so-called meritocracy.
C) Over 66 percent of guns recovered at crime scenes in Mexico that officials asked the U.S. government to trace were sourced to the United States, according to data released Thursday by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
D) Finish Off Al Qaeda. Stop Trying to Fix Afghanistan.
E) There's been a lot of talk lately about how the Federalist Papers are the "bible" through which we should interpret the Constitution. Well, this fellow, who's writing a book on the Federalist Papers, thinks differently.
F) Ten interesting laws for writing science fiction.
A) Of interest to gun people, and presented without comment, ammunition for the self-defense firearm.
B) In a reminder that the world is a small place, A web of privilege supports this so-called meritocracy.
C) Over 66 percent of guns recovered at crime scenes in Mexico that officials asked the U.S. government to trace were sourced to the United States, according to data released Thursday by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
D) Finish Off Al Qaeda. Stop Trying to Fix Afghanistan.
E) There's been a lot of talk lately about how the Federalist Papers are the "bible" through which we should interpret the Constitution. Well, this fellow, who's writing a book on the Federalist Papers, thinks differently.
F) Ten interesting laws for writing science fiction.
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Date: 2012-05-10 04:57 pm (UTC)I don't understand why /C/ is news. You're expecting maybe Brazilian? Russian, Chi-Com? Israeli? Of course they're American. Flash quiz, five-second countdown: Name one (1) Mexican arms maker.
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Date: 2012-05-10 05:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-10 07:45 pm (UTC)I Spy Sturgeon's Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law), a k a signal-to-noise ratio. You think the People's Democratic Socialist loony-lefty sites are immune to this, think again.
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Date: 2012-05-10 08:04 pm (UTC)