Tuesday Links - 1 October

Tam at View From The Porch starts us off with a history lesson. That time we almost got blowed up...

A number of y'all are probably familiar with the time a Soviet Colonel saved the world from nuclear war by staying calm and listening to his gut instincts.

Professor David Yamane at Gun Culture 2.0 - “Shooting isn’t just about pulling a trigger; it’s about control, focus, and responsibility” (Fall 2024 Student Range Visit Reflection #5)

This is the fifth of several student gun range field trip reflection essays from my fall 2024 Sociology of Guns seminar. The assignment to which students are responding can be found here. I am grateful to these students for their willingness to have their thoughts shared publicly.

Tam at Cars Gone By - 1970 Ford Mustang Convertible

That 351 Cleveland had to lug roughly 3400 pounds of Mustang down the road, the bulk of it over the front wheels, so you had understeer for days, which you could turn into oversteer by glancing at the throttle and thinking heavy thoughts.

The Other McCain - Media Mourns Loss of Terrorist Leader

After much blowback — were college interns working the weekend copy desk? — Associated Press has changed that headline, but what was the logic? How does the journalistic “mainstream” reach a point where a bloodthirsty Jew-hater like Hassan Nasrallah gets such a fond send-off from AP? Dig the euphemism in the lead paragraph, where Hezbollah is described as a “Lebanese militant group” when, in fact, they are a gang of Islamic terrorist thugs sponsored by Iran which, to their credit, the AP more or less admits farther down in the story.

Wombat-socho with a report on the end of the fantasy baseball season - FMJRA 2.0: Wait Until Next Year

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 29 September 2024: Virtual Aquarium Edition

In the ongoing legal dispute between Apple and Epic Games over Apple's theft of 30% of everything, Apple was ordered to produce a million documents relating to changes to the App Store.

Apple asked for an extension to that deadline, following its habit of dragging out unfavourable cases forever. (Tech Crunch)

The judge was not having it.

Natasha Biase at The Publica - GERMANY: Train Conductors Told To “Skip Foreigners” During Ticket Checks So They Won’t Become Violent

After noticing an uptick in threatening situations involving “newcomers” and train conductors, a letter was issued to Thuringian Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow explaining that the railway had begun to notice that migrant passengers would board trains without tickets and would threaten staff if asked for proof of payment.

Ace at Ace of Spades HQ - US Dockworkers Set to Strike Tomorrow; Biden Refuses to Intervene

Why isn't Kamala negotiating personally? She says she can fix all of the failures of the past three and a half years.

Meanwhile, Commerce Secretary Raimondo, last seen calling for the "elimination" of Trump, says she has no f***s to give about the impending disruption of supply lines.

And last we get sad news from Meep - RIP, M. Stuart Grace, 1961-2024

Stuart, my husband, died suddenly this evening.

We met in 1996, and were married October 14, 2000 [UPDATE: whups… a little mistake in the first draft, when I wrote 1996 on the 2nd date. He was persuasive but not that persuasive.]

His death was due to complications related to his metastatic prostate cancer, diagnosed in August 2017.

If you pray, consider her children, daughters Heather, Chase, and Siobhan, and son Diarmuid. The world is a scary place after you lose a parent, no matter the age.