Links, Rotary Picnic Edition

[chris_gerrib]

My Rotary club is having a picnic instead of a meeting today, [insert missing logic here] so have some links.

A) Found via View From the Porch, cogent thoughts on the spate of TV survival shows. Money quote: In the end, regardless of what you think you might have learned via osmosis from TV, if you haven’t actually built a shelter from scratch, gathered wild food, butchered a critter, and drunk water you sanitized yourself, you haven’t yet graduated survival kindergarten.

B) Pretty pictures! 10 Beautiful Places That Actually Exist.

C) The world's oceans can be an unlawful place: murder caught on video but not prosecuted.

D) Presented without endorsement: states with tough gun laws have fewer gun murders. My state, Illinois, is (despite Chicago) below the national average.

Comments

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Hmm. If fish and huckleberries count, I've done everything except the shelter. Though frankly "start a fire without matches" should probably be on there and I've never done that. Unless you count starting a camp stove with a flint-and-steel.

But now I'm creaky and ricketty enough that I wouldn't want to be out camping without my creature comforts.

[chris-gerrib.livejournal.com]

well, my idea of roughing it is Motel Six, so count me out!