Category: Boneheads

Yep, seems like a stupid idea to me too.

Eric has a post about eco-loons who run around keying SUVs.

People who are moralistic about their evil are worse — far worse — than ordinary criminals. As far as I’m concerned, those who think it is right to vandalize a stranger’s car for political reasons have shown themselves to be completely lacking in conscience.

I couldn’t agree more. I wonder if Eric knows about our friend Lynn Hoffman’s book “Bang! Bang!” where the protagonist engages in an act of this kind of vandalism against members of a fictional pro-gun rights organization. Anything is justified as long as it happens to the right people I guess.

These people have seriously lost their minds.  I accept the predators will be predators, but humans have brains that allow us to fashion weapons so that we don’t have to be prey; a good thing when you don’t have sharp claws or deadly canines, and can’t run all that fast.

Defending yourself against a predator is as basic a function of being a living creature as you can get.  These people have not only lost touch with what it means to be human, but also what it means to be part of nature.  I don’t blame the tiger; it was just being a tiger, but the police officer who shot the tiger was just being a human.  It was a profound natural act these people don’t seem to understand.

Ahab talks about a program in California to stop drivers and give them Starbucks gift cards to reward them for good driving.  I think a very interesting legal question centers around whether this practice is actually even legal.

I won’t pretend to be an expert in this field, but I’m fairly certain that the police can’t seize a driver for any old reason.  They have to have a reasonable suspicion that the occupants of the vehicle were engaged in some kind of criminal activity.  Even if it’s not strictly illegal, it’s definitely an abuse of authority.

… banging some pots and pans together, or making some other loud noise works too.

According to Tam, who saw it on the Glock Talk forum:

His response was that his machinist buddy had, after some experimentation resulting in blowing the gun up a couple of times, “converted” two thirds of the barrel to titanium.

Damn, now if he can just figure out how to convert it into gold, we can all be rich.

Justin points out the absurdity of some Israeli environmental groups, who are calling on Jews to light one less candle this holiday season to save the planet.

So, to save the environment from 15,000 kg of CO₂ 1 million Jewish households would do just as much good by sleeping in for an extra 65 minutes over Hanukka. If you figure there are 4 people for every household that brings us to 16 minutes and 15 seconds of extra sleep per person.

So, sleep in a little bit this Hanukka season. It’s for the environment!

It’s not really about saving the planet.  It’s about feeling good about yourself because you think you are, and that’s all that matters.

Thirdpower is surprised by anti-gun Brady clan member Kelli:

I don’t care how oppressive this government, or any other future government, becomes. I would NEVER advocate using the U.S. Constitution to justify taking up arms against them.

I don’t get why folks bother with her. There’s an old saying that you should never wrestle with pigs, because you’ll both end up covered in shit, only the pig will like it. I think Kelli falls into that category.

That said, it’s a common thing to hear from pacifists that violence is never justified. I don’t consider pacifism to simply be wrong, I consider it to be immoral. There is a price to be paid for liberty, and pacifists are free riders. They enjoy liberty because other people stand ready to engage in violence on their behalf.

We’re lucky to live in a society where people can afford these naive beliefs, but other people are willing to sacrifice, at best their own psychological health, and their lives in the worst instance, so that people like Kelli can continue to believe there’s “There are other ways to fight. More humane ones, at that.”

Ahab has the latest example of why New Yorkers suck.  Seriously, where do people get off moving some place and telling people how to live their lives?  Why are northern urban dwellers seemingly all infected with this type of cultural chauvinism?

Maybe it’s because I come from a city that’s the forgotten toilet bowl of the northeast, but I wouldn’t move to North Carolina and presume to tell people there how to live.