On the other hand, I pissed away my good guy karma when, for "Earth day" (or whatever it was called) on Saturday, I turned on all the lights just so I could see how everyone else in the neighborhood was doing. I don't know about you, but I can't see in the dark. It made sense at the time.
In the good news for the week category: I'm expecting season 4 of "The Shield" to start arriving. Also, same category, I finished watching HBO's mini-series, "John Adams". It was pretty good, although the first episode was a tad slow. It was also a nice counterpoint to current political shennanigans to see how the originators of our country acted as opposed to the current deconstructionists. (ok..so I slid out of the good news category..sorry).
We said goodbye to "Battlestar Galactica" this past weekend. If you haven't seen it, give a go. It's worth the time. Really.
We also said goodbye to four cops this past week. It was not a happy thing. You might have heard of the incident. A parolee shot two officers with a handgun after they stopped him for a traffic citation. Having shot them, he then stood over them and executed them. He fled to his sister's nearby appartment where he rearmed himself with an AK-47. A swat team, acting on a tip, entered and, while they searched the area, our gunman opened fire from inside a closet killing two and wounding a third. A columnist, Chip Johnson, for the SF Chronicle decided that this was cause to revisit gun control laws since the AK is an "assault" weapon. I think the obvious needs to be addressed: a felon, on parole, has a gun. WTF! Gun control only insures that law abiding citizens are disarmed. Besides, in this political atmosphere, an unarmed electorate is much more manageable. And, I'm afraid, that the re-emergence of National Socialism, in a new and improved disguise, in this country might need to be addressed directly by the citizenry. And if that is the case, you don't want to try to face down the new "brown shirts" with rocks and stinging taunts.
Ok...so I slid clear off the nice-guy chart on that one, but it's my blog and I'll expound if I wanna.
I guess I need to detox my cranky by loading up on caffeine, nicotine and sugar. Maybe take a nap too.
Talk at you later
Upton
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It was very sad to hear about the losses up your way this past weekend. J and I are sensitive to that kind of thing given our family connection with that industry. As for Crap Johnson's article, I haven't read it yet. It was sent to be by a friend but I can't unclench my teeth enough to actually take a bite.
This situation did not occur because of lax gun laws. You know it. I know it, even Crap himself knows it. (Hell, this state has the stiffest gun policy in the nation.) This is something I feel very strongly about, both as a conservative as a gun owner/enthusiast, but I will limit my tirade to this:
People are the problem. Violent crime stats in countries where guns are outlawed are comparable to our own, only knives are the weapon of choice. And before knives, people used clubs. And before clubs, people bit each others fingers off. It’s horrible. It’s scary. It’s part of life. People can imagine whirled peas all they want, legislate until they are blue, it does not change the fact that for some, life is nasty, brutish and short (gotta love Hobbes) and they make it their life mission to ensure other people’s lives are as well. Guns have nothing to do with it, they are just the current means. (And let’s face it cars, alcohol, cholesterol and stress kill more people every year than guns do. Maybe Crap Johnson should write a column about that?)
As to the non-contest...what I made was myself sick with anxiety over the damn thing. I made chilli, which I'd never done before. I made up a recipe and took a whack. I consider myself to be a genius and, so, expected to win. Constantly over achieving is not a goal. It's a way of life ;-)
Upton
i prefer low light to lots of light.
Sorry to hear about the incident i had not yet heard about. i have always felt strongly that it is the moron using an instrument that is at fault, not the thing itself. i mean hell, if someone uses a pencil to stab somebody in the eye is the pencil to blame? Fuck no! It is the idiot that wielded it.
Thanks
Upton