Friday Links - 10 June

A slightly abbreviated Links post. What can I say? Sometimes life gives you lemons. The lemonade part of that is that I got a brand new zero-turn mower out of the deal. Something I have really needed for a long time.

The Other McCain starts things off with WaPo Suspends Dave Weigel WITHOUT PAY for a Month, in Effort to Appease Supreme Commissar Felicia Sonmez

“Felicia is sure doing a great job of dispelling that old sexist stereotype of feminists as vindictive, humorless bitches, eh?”

That was my text message to Dave Weigel after I found out the Washington Post gave him a month’s suspension without pay for retweeting a joke. They did this, of course, in a desperate (and almost certainly futile) attempt to placate the implacable Felicia Sonmez.

MaddMedic - Eric Holder: “GOP Has Welded Itself To Gun Lobby” – FORGETS How He ARMED Drug-runners, Wrote About It On The DOJ Site & Was Held In Contempt Of Congress… With a reminder of Project Gunrunner.

Daniel Greenfield AKA Sultan Knish - The Moral Idiocy of Gun Control. New Yorkers are surrounded by guns.

And there are the guns worn more openly by the army of police officers, security guards, bodyguards, and others, many of whom live on Staten Island, who are hired to keep New Yorkers safe. Two years ago, Bond, an app that some have called 'Uber for Bodyguards' debuted, allowing New Yorkers to order their own security personnel. New Yorkers, who disdain guns, instead tap an app for bodyguards to escort them from their train stop to their office.

Again from The Other McCain - ‘Killadelphia’ Update: Amanda Marcotte Escapes Death in South Street Massacre

This is mere sarcasm, of course. I do not actually wish Amanda Marcotte had been killed in an urban shootout, but it is ironic that she had been in that vicinity 24 hours earlier. Dana Pico at First Street Journal gives Marcotte’s column a thorough fisking, thus sparing me the trouble. However, to summarize her theme briefly, it seems to be Marcotte’s contention that, because a majority of U.S. shootings involve “people of color,” Republicans actually encourage criminal violence.

Gun Free Zone - Biden’s economy is destroying your police and fire departments. Police departments use a lot of fuel in their vehicles.

As gas prices surge, Michigan sheriff asks deputies to manage some dispatch calls by phone [SNIP]

Budgets are exhausted and the price of gas is still rising.

Once more from The Other McCain - Norms Restored: FBI Now Literally Arresting Republican Candidates

Kelley is charged with a misdemeanor. The affidavit for his arrest stipulates that Kelley never entered the Capitol. Just being in attendance at the protest is evidently a crime now, and how soon before they start rounding up everybody who expresses doubt about the administrative capacity of President Eight-One Million Votes? You could go to federal prison for having a Trump bumper sticker, I guess.