13 December 2024

Friday Links - Friggatriskaidekaphobia Edition

Your vocabulary word of the day: Friggatriskaidekaphobia. It means fear of Friday the 13th.

Miguel Gonzalez has a reaction to a recent arrest. Let me get this straight.

Suddenly you are fingered by a minimum-wage french-fries server basically down the road where you committed the assassination while still having with you every single piece of evidence tying you to the killing?

Clayton Cramer - For the Want of a Nail... the Daniel Penny Trial

There are other steps in the possible sequence. If New York let its people carry tear gas for self-defense, one mentally ill passenger would not be so scary.

Tam at View From The Porch - On the upside, and on the downside...

On the downside, now I have to brace for a tidal wave of derp about so-called "ghost guns" and 3D printing.

Sarah Anderson at PJ Media - A Million Degrees of Separation: You Won't Believe How Rachel Maddow Connected Luigi Mangione to Trump

The Other McCain - Voodoo Blamed for Massacre in Haiti

The last time we checked in on Haiti (“Haiti’s Zombie Apocalypse: Media Skeptical of Cannibalism Reports,” March 13), the situation was very bad, but since then it has apparently gotten even worse, leading me to ask, who had “Haiti voodoo massacre” on their 2024 bingo card?

Freedom Is Just Another Word… - Just in case ya didn’t know… Some facts about Minnesota.

At 35, New York landlords finally turn up the heat. People in Minnesota have the last cookout before it gets cold. At 20, People in Miami all die. Minnesotans close their windows.
At 0, Californians fly away to Mexico . People in Minnesota get out their winter coats.
At 10 below zero, Hollywood disintegrates. The Girl Scouts in Minnesota are selling cookies door to door.

Not the Bee - The gay couple that runs the largest LGBTQ news site accused of sexual abuse in the workplace

Here's a shocker for you: A gay couple who run the largest LGBTQ news site, Pink News, have been accused by 33 employees of sexual abuse and misogyny in the workplace.

Again from Tam at View From The Porch - Boomsticks: The new Ruger/Magpul RXM...

Meanwhile, I can finally talk about the new Ruger. In a world where there are already several Gen3 Glock 19 clones of varying quality, it's easy to go "Ho-hum, another one..."

But Ruger and Magpul are both manufacturers that know what they're doing; this isn't some back-alley operation in Istanbul.

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