Tuesday Links - 11 August

The Gun Writer starts us off with How to prevent ATF from targeting innocent Americans … again

Retired senior ATF official plots a course ATF should take.

Chicago Contrarian - A Tale of Two Headlines

A rare side-by-side look at different sides of the late-term abortion issue

Miguel Gonzalez - Babylon 5 Geekness.

Still the best SciFi series ever.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 7 August 2026: Liminal Bugs Edition

Measuring the Pareto Frontier of AI models. (DeepSWE)

A Pareto Frontier is a line drawn on a chart through a set of solutions that are each the best at a different task, but there is no single winner.

An interesting point is that GPT 5.6 Luna - which I have never tried - is nearly as good as Claude Fable but much, much cheaper, with the total for the test suite coming to $0.61 vs. Fable's $21.63.

Chicago Contrarian - A Tale of Two Headlines

This past week, we were treated to a rare side-by-side look at different sides of the late-term abortion issue.

Meep at STUMP - The Week in Meep: Gambling, MORE LIGHTNING, Turkeys!

Dostoevsky knew about gambling from direct experience

Juliette Ochieng at Juliette’s Newsletter - Why America is Great

Meanwhile, if you’ve been following the various WNBA dramas - and what organization full of angry, ungrateful women would not be full of drama? - you’ll enjoy these pictures. Only one is altered.

Paul Vallas at Chicago Contrarian - Chicago’s Twin Financial Crisis

The Chicago Public Schools’ (CPS) annual financial crisis played out again and will once again drag Chicago into providing financial assistance which will provide a temporary financial reprieve while making it significantly harder for the city to address its own financial crisis.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: The Usual Horrible Start to the Season

Well, I guess we owe Mr. Yawkey for some water coolers after going 0-3 at Fenway to open the season. F*ck.

Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane - There's No Substitute for Showing Up in Sociology of Guns

Here I will begin to lay out the specific assignments the students in the seminar complete.

I begin with the most unique part of the course: A field trip to the gun range.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Climate Doom Is Making People Lonelier Or Something

It’s called weather. Humans have done fine with the weather throughout our history. This is just the cult being the cult, doomsaying, blaming things that really have nothing to do with the weather and everything to do with the kiddies really just spending a lot of time alone at home, playing games, doing social media stuff, etc.

Graphs about Religion - Finance Majors Go to Church. English Majors Don't

The Stereotypes About Which Majors Are Religious and Conservative Turn Out to Be Mostly True.

He Returned With a Shotgun

This all started because he didn't have his ID. Refused a Beer Without ID, He Returned With a Shotgun. Two Armed Customers Were Waiting. - USA Carry

Two good guys with guns. A bad guy with a shotgun.

• After being asked to leave, he returned armed with a shotgun and threatened others.
• Two armed bystanders who previously escorted him out shot and killed him in self-defense.

The hat tip goes to Colion Noir, and the video below.

This is Colion Noir's video He Walked Into A Store With A Shotgun. Citizens Were Armed

This whole thing kicked off over a beer run and two strangers who had absolutely nothing invested in this man's night still tried to talk him down and walk him out of the door like grown folks, which is the part everybody's going to skip past on the way to the arguing about guns.

The video is 6 minutes.

A bit more from the video...

Those same two men who tried to diffuse it are the ones who ended it. And I want people to actually hold both of those facts in their hands at the same time. Because the caricature of the concealed carrier is a guy praying for a reason. And what we got instead were two guys who spent their first move trying to keep everybody alive. And their last move trying to keep everybody alive. Same objective, just different tool.

A Terror Attack in France

Allegedly a terror attack. By way of Google Translate, and Chromium we get the following story from France. Toulouse : Deux policiers municipaux agressés et blessés au couteau lors d’une patrouille - OR - Toulouse: Two municipal police officers attacked and injured with a knife during a patrol.

ASSAULT Two municipal police officers were injured in a knife attack late Monday afternoon in Toulouse. The suspect was arrested after the attack and reportedly made terrorist-related remarks.

Toulouse, France, is about a 405 kilometer drive west of Marseille, or about a 675 kilometer drive south of Paris.

Both officers were injured during the attack. One sustained an elbow injury, while his colleague was hit in the arm and neck. They were taken to Rangueil University Hospital. Their injuries are not life-threatening.

Barely a news item.

Police stabbed in Toulouse by "allahu akbar" screamer again today.

Barely makes the "news" anymore. pic.twitter.com/8fwmZEhg53

— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) August 10, 2026

25 Years of Instapundit

2001 was a long time ago. 25 Years of Blogitude - by Glenn Harlan Reynolds

InstaPundit turned 25 on Saturday.

I didn’t mean for it to last this long. When I started InstaPundit, it was just the latest in a series of Internet ventures, ranging from Internet radio stations, and bands, on MP3.com, to RaveRights.com, an electronic music civil-rights site I set up because the DEA was at the time prosecuting raves under the so-called “crack house law,” which criminalizes owning or operating a building for the purpose of taking drugs.

Click thru for Glenn Reynolds' reflections.

In the middle of 2001 was still thinking that I wanted my career in corporate America. By the middle of 2002 I was living on my boat in Florida. And in 2004, I was so angry about the election coverage in the lamestream media, that I started the first incarnation of this blog. It still exists, but I had to make it private. Too many broken/hijacked links for the folks at Alphabet. The Trolls kept reporting me.

World Alone

Tony Iommi was the guitarist for Black Sabbath. He announced his third solo album in Birmingham, England, on 29 July.

If you follow Heavy Metal, you probably know that Black Sabbath gave its final concert on 5 July 2025 in Birmingham, where they got started. Ozzy Osbourne passed away from a heart attack on 22 July 2025.

Iommi also appears on two tracks of Osbourne's last album, Patient Number 9, which came out in 2022.

On the upcoming album Iommi is joined by Norwegian vocalist Jorn Lande, Mercyful Fate bassist Becky Baldwin, and English drummer Karl Brazil. I have not seen anything about a tour, but given that Tony Iommi is 78 years old, there may not be much in the way of a tour.

This song is "World Alone" by Tony Iommi. It was released on July 29th as part of the announcement of his upcoming album, From the Dark. There is, of course, an official video; I find it very distracting, the way I find most official videos. It is easy enough to find if you're interested.

Self-Defense Is Legal in Indiana

Road rage is something to stay away from. "Let it go," is a phrase people need to meditate on. No charges filed in fatal Hancock County road rage shooting, prosecutor says

They don't say why this guy was raging, but it is usually some perceived slight. "You cut me off," or something equally inane.

A Dodge Journey followed closely behind, at times less than a foot away, witnesses said.

When both vehicles came to a stop in a construction zone in western Hancock County, prosecutors said the Dodge driver exited his vehicle and aggressively confronted the Volkswagen's occupants, threatening bodily harm.

He didn't even stop being an idiot, when the driver of the Volkswagen got out with a gun, and told him to get back in his car.

The Dodge driver continued advancing and was shot multiple times. He retreated to his vehicle, where he later died.

There was a witness who gave a lot of info to the police. This is the key statement.

The witness also told police, “If I was put in that predicament, if I was the guy in the Volkswagen, I would have been scared for my life.”

Hancock County, Indiana, is in the Indianapolis metropolitan area. The county like is roughly 10 miles east of downtown Indianapolis.

Considering that this incident took place on July 21st, we have another district attorney making a determination at warp speed. (Hat tip to US Carry)

The New York Times on Jordan Salinas

From the Crime Prevention Research Center: New York Times actually runs a positive story about the Citizen who used his gun to stop the mass public shooting at the In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho

Given how incredibly rare it is for the New York Times to give positive news coverage to a civilian who stopped a mass public shooting (and these occur all the time without getting news coverage), you have to give them credit when they do cover such a story.

A pro-gun/pro-gunowner story in the NYT... Surely this is a sign of the End Times. Or something. Maybe Hell has frozen over.

LA County Sheriff Agreement on Concealed Carry

LA County has been slow-walking Concealed Carry permits, and doing other things. LA Waves White Flag In Concealed Carry Case | The Daily Caller

Pro-Second Amendment organizations and individual plaintiffs originally filed the suit in December 2023, accusing California jurisdictions of charging excessive fees and being dilatory in processing applications for carry permits. The group celebrated the settlement with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) in a Thursday release.

The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) was the organization that made the announcement.

Other plaintiffs in the case included Gun Owners of America (GOA), Gun Owners Foundation, seven individuals and the California Rifle and Pistol Association (CRPA).

The settlement addresses exorbitant fees, length of time spent processing applications, and the creation of a non-resident permitting scheme.

All the organizations made some statement.

Why Is She Hulk Still in my Feed?

She Hulk was a disaster of a Disney+ show produced by Marvel back in 2022. It is too bad really. Somewhere around here I have a framed, reproduction cover of the The Savage She-Hulk, from 1979. (See the image below.) It isn't the best comic ever. It was created because at the time it was commissioned, The Hulk TV show was going, and The Bionic Woman had been launched, a female version of The Six-Million Dollar Man, and it was doing quite well. Marvel wanted to get to the copyright of a female Hulk before the network did.

The 1989-1994 run by John Byrne is the version everyone loves. She Hulk was mostly a member of the Avengers and The Fantastic Four during this era, though she did have at least one solo comic. This is the era when She Hulk began breaking the 4th wall.

I also like the early 2000s run starting with Single Green Female. Well, I like the art. I only read that online by way of my local library, so I may be misremembering how it was. I don't remember much about the story.^‡ The image to the left is from that era.

I'm not sure if Single Green Female, from the early 2000s, is better or worse.

I was living on a boat in 2004, when Single Green Female was published. Comics were contraindicated by the humidity and the lack of space for collecting.

Her origin was that she was Bruce Banner's cousin. When she was critically wounded in an assassination attempt, he saved her with a blood transfusion, but she became She Hulk as a result, with a milder version of his condition. That origin is not allowed by Disney-Marvel. A man save a woman? We couldn't have that in 2022.

With all of that, the videos/posts making the rounds are about the disasterous Disney-Marvel TV show. And it was a disaster, though Disney thought it did well enough.

This is the Critical Drinker video She-Hulk - The Show That Literally Killed Careers

Then this X post, came up on Friday Night Tights. (That is an excerpt from the full FNT episode, just dealing with Marvel.) The bit dealing with the She Hulk show, starts at 9 minutes and 50 seconds into that excerpt. I don't have it queued up, because I like the whole thing.

The head writer and showrunner of “She-Hulk” was Jessica Gao. She was best known for being the credited writer on the “Pickle Rick” episode of “Rick and Morty.”

During the production of that episode, “Rick and Morty” showrunner Dan Harmon cast Susan Sarandon as the family’s… https://t.co/zNn8s73b4u

— Daniel Friedman (@DanFriedman81) August 3, 2026

The excerpt is 27 minutes long.

The full FNT is at this link. It is 4 hours long. I haven't seen all of it.

This is the Film Threat News video WRITER JESSICA GAO DESTROYED SHE-HULK WITH WOKENESS. It is 15 minutes.

‡ I have strange tastes in comics, just like I have strange taste in music. In addition to liking some She Hulk that others don't, I also like The New 52 introduction of Batwoman, which most people hate. I thought the art was good, and the first story was OK, but it was Woke, and the 2nd and 3rd story arcs were not so good. (Batwoman in The New 52 was a lesbian kicked out of the military under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," who went on to train with mercenaries. She was NOT Bruce Wayne's cousin.

The History of Goth

While most people (except for the members of Bauhaus) consider the song "Bela Lugosi's Dead" to be the first Gothic Rock record, it didn't appear out of nowhere. And for whatever reason, Bauhaus always denied being Goth. The band described their style as "dark glam." Instead, they referenced other bands, specifically Siouxsie and the Banshees, as the pioneers of Goth.

I found this video a long time ago, during the dark ages of the 2020 lockdown. It has been in my drafts for that long. I was going to delete the post, but listening to the video again, I decided it is worth sharing. Some of you out there may be fans of Punk, and a fair number are probably fans of Post Punk (or New Wave, as suits insist on calling it). Goth is sort of Post-Post Punk, though there are several genres that can claim that title.

The video starts with Screamin' Jay Hawkins and "I Put a Spell on You." I prefer Nina Simone's 1965 cover of this song, and I will feature this version eventually. You might be familiar with the Creedence Clearwater Revival cover of the song.

Then it goes on to The Doors, who were the first band to be called Gothic Rock in a newspaper article. The song "The End" has a lot of the hallmarks of Goth. Dark lyrics being what I consider the cornerstone.

The Velvet Underground is often credited with starting a lot of things, everything from Punk to New Wave, Shoegaze and Goth. And of course launching the career of the singer Nico.

Nico of course left The Velvet Underground. Her first solo album was warped by the label into something she hated. The Marble Index, her 2nd album, was a rejection of the Pop sensibility of that 1st album. She died her hair red, and wore all, or mostly, black. This gives her a good claim on the title of the first Goth girl.

Alice Cooper is next with his odd lyrics, and stage antics, and makeup. His stage show was especially dark in the early years.

One of the things that most people miss, is the influence of Glam Rock, as an inspiration to Goth. You can see it in the makeup of Bowie, and in the song "In Every Dreamhome a Heartache" by Roxy Music.

While it's generally assumed that goth evolved from Punk, the dark-hued tendencies The Damned and Siouxsie and The Banshees bridging the gap, Glam Rock is where Goth's influence started in earnest.

Aesthetically, there's a short space between the two genres with Glam's sexual ambiguity, attraction to eyeliner and pale foundation, and the exaggerated clothing choices mirroring those of gothic culture. Sure, T. Rex, Roxy Music and David Bowie were more into glitter than their gloomy siblings ever would be, but there's a reason why all the key British Goth bands list at least one of them as a key influence.

Brian Eno gets a mention, because of the work he did after leaving Roxy Music.

Punk. There are a couple of bands mentioned, I doubt you've heard of them, unless you're into Punk.

Post Punk. Siouxsie and The Banshees and the Cure were two bands that moved into Goth, eventually. And Joy Division.

Finally we get to Bauhaus, and their 1979 single "Bela Lugosi's Dead."

This is Before Bauhaus: How Goth Became Goth, a history of Goth. It is 27 minutes long, so plan accordingly.

Homeowner Kills Dog After It Attacked Pet

People need to control their dogs. Broward homeowner fatally shoots dog after it escaped yard, attacked pet, police say - CBS Miami

According to Lighthouse Point police, two dogs got loose after escaping a fenced-in yard and began to roam through the neighborhood.

While in the area, police said they encountered a much smaller dog on the front porch of a home

One of the two dogs grabbed the small dog.

A family friend identified as Joe described the attack as "vicious," stating that the dog "grabbed onto the puppy... and shook it." He said the owner was forced to shoot the dog after other efforts to stop the attack failed.

The other dog fled, and then attacked a person nearby, biting that person on the leg.

Lighthouse Point, Florida, is about 10 miles north of Fort Lauderdale.

The owner of the large dogs eventually secured the other dog. As I type this, the incident is under investigation.

While I am not a lawyer, it is my understanding that you can defend your animals against other animals.

The small dog was taken to the vet.

Flock Cameras, Liberty, and Justice

From The Law Dog Files: It is better that ten guilty persons escape - by Ian: Than that one innocent suffer.

The title to this article is Blackstone’s Ratio, quoted from his seminal work: “Commentaries on the Laws of England”.

John Adams, Founding Father and second President of the United States, expounded further on Blackstone’s Ratio.

Flock cameras treat everyone as guilty. The surveillence state, once established, will find more ways to "punish the guilty," and more things for you to be guilty of.

A deputy sheriff in Bugscuffle County, Texas is able to look for a license plate registered to Los Angeles, California; or New York City, New York; or Toadstomp, Montana — with no Constitutional protections for the owners of that plate whatsoever.

There are — as one might imagine — multiple issues here, not the least of which is that there are no active audits being run. Since a search warrant is not required, LEOs are getting caught running searches for license plates using “Test”, “Training”, and the always popular generic “Investigation” — if they even input a reason. Several officers didn’t either bother entering a reason for the search.

Is anyone shocked that cops are using Flock to stalk people, their ex-partners, their girlfriends/wives, people that they are interested in romantically.

Click thru for the "If you've got nothing to hide..." argument, and how it falls apart.

An Update to the Gun Curiosity Seminar

Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane has an update on the Professor's popular course. An Invitation to Gun Curiosity: The motivation for my Sociology of Guns seminar redesign

In a recent post about my revamped Sociology of Guns seminar, I discussed moving from a topic-based approach to a question-based approach to the material. I connected this shift to the increasing importance of intellectual virtues like curiosity, open-mindedness, and humility as learning outcomes for the course, but I didn’t fully explain the reasoning behind it.

Briefly: questions open up inquiry and conversation in ways topics do not. A topic like “gun violence” or “concealed carry” can be covered and closed. A question keeps going. As Peter Berger put it in Invitation to Sociology, the first wisdom of sociology is that “things are not what they seem.”

This put me in mind of a Zen koan.

The koan is about A Cup of Tea:

Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen.

Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and then kept on pouring.

The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. “It is overfull. No more will go in!”

“Like this cup,” Nan-in said, “you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?”

One of the major problems with the world we live in today, is that everyone is so sure of what is true, or they have abandoned the idea of objective truth completely, in favor of personal feelings. Not sure how you do inquiry in the face of that. (If you know the acceptable answer, before you do the study, why bother to do the study?)

There are more details about the class, a photo of a very-nice AR, and another of some snacks, that made me hungry for dessert. Click thru.

Professor Yamane, with the approval of his students, has posted some of those students work from the past seminars. They have been fascinating reads. I look forward to seeing what this year will bring.

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 8 August

Wombat-socho is up first with In The Mailbox: 08.06.26

The Bugscuffle Gazette: It is better that ten guilty persons escape
Jim McCoy: Deadly Forest

The Right Way - Top of the News

Lies, Damned Lies, and COVID-19 - The Other McCain
Judge Sides with Feds, Blocks New York Mask Ban for Federal Agents - Bongino Report

EBL - William Wallace Song

5 August 1305 : William Wallace captured by the English
AoSHQ: Morning Report 08.05.26

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 8 August 2026: Blurplish Edition

Memory is now selling at prices last seen in 2007. (Tom's Hardware)
Though the memory price crash of 2007 was one of the reasons why there are only three big memory manufacturers today.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 8/7/2026

Controversial Twitch streamer Hasan Piker is calling on Democrats to ensure that those who do not support Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed face consequences for not holding the party line.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 08.06.26 (Evening Edition)

Glenn Reynolds: Travels of the Mind
STUMP: Chicago Public Finance Watch – How Many Finance People Have Left?

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - More Fun with Fauci

Ace Stop Me If You Heard This One Before, Redux: "Deal" to Open the Strait of Hormuz "Imminent"? Supposedly. Scott Bessent and Marco Rubio say a deal is imminent-adjacent. Hot Air quotes Reuters. This doesn't sound like a bona fide deal to me.

Small Dead Animals - Wednesday On Turtle Island

Conman Carney’s Canada: Liberal townhomes. Moderate Muslim. Day of hating Jews. Carney’s Ontario.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Truth not credentials. Illegal logging for wind turbines.

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 08.07.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Vox Popoli: It’s Not Happening, The Daily Machiavelli, and Air Supremacy Established
Cedar Sanderson: Toast & Gidget – First Contact,

The Glibertarians - Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – In the cold moonlight

There’s One Word the Left Needs to Start Saying if They Want to Win
The Jason Arday debacle is becoming a national scandal

Political Hat - Quick Takes – Killing Without Consent: Euthanasia For Pre-Teens; Euthanasia Without Parental Consent; Euthanasia Against An Adult Patient’s Wishes

The Netherlands has decided to include children under 12 on their kill list.
This isn’t the first case of killing kids under 12 since infanticide has been legal for a while there.

Once more from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 08.07.26

Racket News: The Ongoing COVID Coverup,
Shark Tank: Carbonara Stretching Truth About MAGA Support As Askar Rises, Keiser Drops

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For August 7, 2026

Still, here’s Sarah Hoyt on why the Iran War isn’t optional.
“DOJ Fraud Division Announces Charges Against 19 Defendants in Philadelphia.”
Commie Jihadi wins. “Abdul El-Sayed Wins Michigan Democratic Senate Primary. ...”

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism, 08/07/2026 – Back to The Economist!

The tide turns for a Florida darling and California loser
The argument is that Miami has become too successful and has become less affordable. Seriously. Last I checked Miami still doesn’t need poop maps.

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 8/ 5 /26

When will “Gays for Gaza” die?
Awakening Gays to the Horror of Islam

Vlad Tepes - The destruction of Canada by immigration and redefinition: Links 1 for Aug. 7 2026

1. The mosque in Regina Sask. will now start to play the call to Prayer. No idea from this news report how often or how loud. But we know for a fact this is an incremental jihad. It will end with 5X a day and as loud as they can.

Maggie's Farm - Friday morning links

How Columbia University Made Me a Conservative
‘My Medical Association Silenced My Views on Gender Care.’ Plus. . .

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Nick Shirley Went to Ceuta, Spain

Importing Mexican Poop Lettuce is a Choice - CTH
Democratic Socialists Openly Call For The Erasure Of Constitutional Government - ZH

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 08/07/2026

Federal Court Strikes Down NFA Registration Requirements for Suppressors, Short-Barreled Rifles, and Short-Barreled Shotguns in NRA Case. Court holds that since the registration fee was dropped to zero in the One Big Beautiful Bill, the law is no longer justified as aa tax

I leave you with Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #4014 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, Wednesday Memes … from MaddMedic, and Your weekly batch of political and current event memes from Wirecutter.

Self-Defense Is Legal in Alabama

But then I suspected that it was. No charges in fatal Huntsville shooting ruled self-defense

The incident in question took place on July 27th.

Investigators determined a physical altercation took place before the shooting occurred.

During the altercation, the other individual discharged a firearm in self-defense, striking Blood, officials said.

This is the 2nd incident in Huntsville that I've covered in the past month. I had to check, twice, to be sure this was a second incident. It is also the second time in about a month, that the District Attorney's Office for Madison County, Alabama, has moved at warp speed in the determination of self defense.

Robert L. Broussard currently holds the office of Madison County District Attorney. Hats off to you sir. Some prosecuting attorneys wait months to make such a determination, even in the face of video evidence. Why? Because too many DAs hate self-defense.

Self-defense is a human right, and at least in Huntsville, and likely the rest of Alabama, it is your legal right.

Minnesota City Has All (8) Flock Cameras Stolen

Eight is not a lot of cameras, but it's a start. All 8 Flock cameras stolen in this Minnesota city as nationwide scrutiny grows | Mashable

All eight license plate readers operated by the Winona Police Department disappeared sometime between July 29 and Aug. 1, according to police. Officers discovered the thefts after one noticed that the system had not recorded any recent activity.

The poles were cut, and the cameras stolen.

At least five devices were stolen and another was damaged in Duluth during June and July. In Plymouth, one was found in pieces beneath its pole, while another had its power cord cut. Similar incidents have also been reported in Edina, Eden Prairie, Minnetonka, and Anoka County.

People don't want to live in a Panoptican.

It's Probably Me

WXRT's Saturday Morning Flashback was covering 1992 in late June. Not a bad era for songs.

Here is what the Wiki has to say (always a suspect source) about today's song.

The song uses leitmotifs that were first used on the soundtrack for the original Lethal Weapon film, released five years earlier. It was released as a single and on the Lethal Weapon 3 movie soundtrack. It also appears on the Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994 international edition compilation album

This song is "It's Probably Me" by Sting, featuring Eric Clapton, Michael Kamen, and David Sanborn. It is from the Soundtrack to the movie Lethal Weapon 3. I don't remember anything about that movie, except that it was better than 2.

Friday Links - 7 August

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts things rolling with Oh Noes, MAGA Seizes On Mamdani’s Grocery Stores Requiring ID

According to Democrat Talking Points requiring government identification is raaaaacist, because People Of Color!!!!! cannot get an ID.

The Gun Writer - From fixing fighter jets to helping veterans

Robert Russ spent more than 20 years in the U.S. Air Force fixing fighter jets around the globe while away from his family.

Again from William Teach - Narrative Fail: Washington Man Arrested For Arson

They were blaming this all on ‘climate change’. I guess not. Of course, now they’ll just say the fire was “made worse” from the climate crisis.

George Shay at Chicago Contrarian - The “Root Cause” of Food Deserts in Chicago

The root cause isn’t the lack of grocery stores. It’s the disappearance of the conditions that make grocery stores possible

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 4 August 2026: Teratornia Edition

Only about 10% of memory sold at retail is DDR4. (WCCFTech)

This despite it being significantly cheaper than DDR5.

The advantage of DDR4 comes from the fact that you already have it, and don't need to buy it.

Miguel Gonzalez - Do not diminish our culture!

You marry a Hispanic girl, you get the whole family included in the price plus as extra-bonus, 3 dozen cousins, all the godparents and even the bodega owner whose known your wife since she was in cloth diapers.

Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane - Illuminations #10. Guntry Clubs, Grandkids, and Gun Divestment

I continue to try to find time to work on my Gun Culture 2.0 book. Even though I have written a lot about the topic over the years, it still takes a long time and a great deal of effort to bring those ideas together into a coherent package.

The Other McCain - IQ Voodoo and Other Errors

One of the problems with American politics is how the two-party system tends to foster a Manichean duality on every issue. The Democrat “borg” (which includes media and academia) pushes whatever its policy agenda may be at any moment, and demonizes anyone who dissents.

Self-Defense in New York

Is self-defense even legal in New York State? Apparently it is, though it doesn't seem to be on the Island of Manhattan. Upstate NY homeowner shoots, kills intruder in home invasion

Do you think that the would-be, bad guy didn't expect to encounter armed resistance in this blue state?

An Upstate New York homeowner shot and killed an apparent intruder who broke into his residence early Monday morning, according to police.

Rochester police responded to the scene on Avery Street at approximately 4:30 a.m. on Monday after a neighbor reported hearing gunshots.

If you come, uninvited, to my house at 4:30 in the morning, you will find me in a really vile mood.

Rochester Police Capt. Frank Umbrino told reporters that the shooting appears to be justified as the resident used a legally registered handgun and possesses a valid New York state pistol permit, according to WHEC.

Rochester is on Lake Ontario. It about halfway between Syracuse and Buffalo, or it is roughly a 70 mile drive east of Buffalo.

Self-defense is a human right, and it might be your legal right in the State of New York, depending on where you find yourself in the state.