Friday Links - 6 August

Miguel Gonzalez starts us off with a story of true love. Mouse House Gun for the Missus. And deep trust.

Once I have it sighted, it will leave my hands never to be touched again because that is the way she rolls.

But she ain’t getting my long mags from the Ruger PC 9. No way. She can buy her own.

That Park Place - ‘The Acolyte’ Cancellation Backlash: Seemingly Organized Effort Under Way to Have YouTube Silence Critics of the Show. (Don't you dare question The Message!)

Despite what should probably be an indictment of Lucasfilm lead Kathleen Kennedy hiring the former personal assistant to Harvey Weinstein (Leslye Headland) to run the show, a new defense has sprung up. Instead of it being the fault of a wayward studio with rapidly declining engagement, it is instead the act of deranged trolls which derailed The Acolyte. Occam’s Razor, this is not.

The Other McCain - Rhanni Davis Charged With Four Murders on Suburban Chicago Commuter Train

So, five shot to death in Chicago, and four more murdered on a commuter train and yet, for some reason, CNN didn’t give hourly coverage of these shootings, nor did President Biden issue a statement about the carnage. Murder in Chicago — or Baltimore, Detroit, Memphis, etc. — is routine, and regarded as strictly local news. In terms of covering crime, as in every other thing they do, the national media care only about politics, and doing what they can to help Democrats win elections.

Only Guns and Money - McFadden caves on gun permit delays

Sheriff Garry McFadden of Mecklenburg County, NC had a disingenuous way of delaying the issuance of NC Concealed Handgun Permits. Under the guise of investigating an applicant’s mental health status, he would have all applicants’ names sent to the Veterans Administration for a copy of their records. Notice I said all. The VA would be getting requests for mental health records for applicants who had never, ever served in any branch of the US military. This created both a paperwork headache for the VA and a prolonged delay for the applicant.

The Feral Irishman - "A damn good Marine": Eugene Sledge (aka Sledgehammer) remembered on Victory over Japan Day (2 September 1945)

His son continues to set up a display with diorama, memorabilia, etc. and of course offers for sale Eugene's famous book, With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa. The book, by the way, is one of the best personal accounts of a WW2 frontline combat participant in my honest opinion.

Flopping Aces - democrats want to destroy that which they cannot control: this time it’s free speech

democrats tend to seek to destroy things that they cannot rule over and are roadblocks to a forever one-party fascist state, like Donald Trump, the electoral college, the Supreme Court and more recently, Elon Musk. Now the left has put the Constitution in its sights.

And finally Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony with some Woke Gaming news. Daily News Stuff 4 September 2024:Est Mort Edition

Concord is dead. (Mashable, 3 September)

Yes, Concord, Sony's $200 million (ish) tentpole hero shooter Overwatch clone (depending on your generation, digital laser tag/cops and robbers/cowboys and indians/Mycenaeans and Sea People) has officially been unalived less than two weeks after release.

Despite desperate attempts by the entire tech and gaming press - apart from Mashable, as it turns out - to drag its flyblown corpse across the finish line, Sony read the hemlock leaves and decided that there was no way to fix this mess without setting even more money on fire. ...

If your doctor has advised you to increase dietary schadenfreude I present The Verge and Kotaku. Kotaku is in the seventh stage of grief, which like the first six stages consists of blaming gamers.