3:00 snapshot #674

[urbpan]

Hey, I know most of you if you're going to read my movie reviews already do, but there may be some new people. I reviewed Inception

There were a few essays about the shooting in Arizona that I wanted to keep around, to read in the future, or show my dad maybe.

The Wrath of Fools: An Open Letter to the Far Right

The Rude Pundit: "Dear Right-Wingers, You Are All Muslims Now"

And behind the cut,

Comments

[roaming.livejournal.com]

This.

"Words matter. Play Russian Roulette long enough, and someone inevitably winds up dead."

[bill_sheehan.livejournal.com]

Tom Tomorrow's strip is, as usual, dead on.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yeah! It really is.

[by-steph.livejournal.com]

"FINCH SEED *Use this for finches*". Got it, but what is PIGEON GRIT possibly used for?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Pigeon grit is also for the finches. It's little rocks for them to eat to aid their digestion. We actually break it into smaller rocks with a coffee grinder since the finches are so tiny.

[by-steph.livejournal.com]

Joke FAIL on my part.

Interesting that you grind it down a level for the finches though.

Did you know that owls do not have a crop? I find this oddly fascinating.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Deadpan humor perception FAIL on my point.

(see comment below yours: I was in didactic mode)

I was always confused about that point with owls, since I thought the pellet was made in the crop.

[by-steph.livejournal.com]

A very nice write up by the Owl Trust: http://www.owls.org/Information/pellets.htm

I had no idea about the origins of the clothes moth. That too is fascinating.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Whoa, gonna need to do some research on that! (For starters, do they mean the webbing clothes moth or the case-making clothes moth?)

[shellynoir.livejournal.com]

I thought pigeons weren't supposed to eat grit. It's a big no no.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Dunnno. Strangely enough I've never taken care of pigeons. The pigeon grit is given to different birds to help digestion.

[propaddict.livejournal.com]

I love Tom Tomorrow, but I have to disagree with this strip.

Had the "gun nutz" won, virtually every American desiring the privilege would be able to concealed carry a handgun basically everywhere. In that instance, there is NO WAY that an insane gunman would be able to bust into a crowded room with a Glock 17 and shoot almost 20 people. He would have been stopped much sooner. He certainly wouldn't have been able to re-load.

Instead, he targeted a location where law-abiding civilians were not allowed to exercise concealed-carry privileges 9purportedly there were signs on the doors announcing that guns were not allowed at the rally). Not to sound trite, but he chose a situation where "guns were outlawed, so only outlaws had guns."

The deterrence potential of having an unknown fraction of the populace covertly armed at all times is significant.