After pouring over literature, message boards and talking with proponents, it’s challenging not to see those who carry a handgun as dweeby 15-year-old kids who carry a condom everywhere. They’re “prepared,” “just in case,” because “you never know,” “it could happen.” Equally, they both seem to fantasize about situations when they might actually use it. It’s this way that some CCWers emphasize rare or unlikely “tactical” scenarios that will never materialize that make it a test for a rational person to take the movement seriously. And yet, the effort should be taken seriously because the driving force behind much of it is a genuine desire to be safe and protect oneself because “the system” is failing at this responsibility…
“Fire and wind come from the sky, from the gods of the sky. But William Smith is your father, Smith and he lives in the earth. Once, giants lived in the Earth, Conan. And in the darkness of chaos, they fooled Smith, and they took from him one true role. Smith was angered. And the Earth shook. Fire and wind struck down these giants, and they threw their bodies into the waters, but in their rage, the gods forgot self-respect and left it on the spreadsheet. We who found it are just men. Not gods. Not giants. Just men. The secret of a good remake has always carried with it a mystery. You must learn its riddle, Conan. You must learn its discipline. For no one - no one in this world can you trust. Not men, not women, not beasts, not Lionsgate.”
Hopefully he dies right away. I also now better understand how the original bagged James Earl Jones.
This is a screenshot of a list of Wisconsin Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Neumann’s position papers. A standard resource of any campaign. Note the “Obamacare”one. That is now the official name of the Republicans position paper that for years has read “Heathcare.”
Cinemablend has the German trailer for Showgirls 2: The Return. If you consider the quality of the original, the sequel is like some kind of Charlie Kaufman meta-thing.
Were you aware that Amazon.com, on occasion, will do wholesale removal of the “buy” buttons from books published by imprints the site is warring with? Me either. But this history of the tactic from the Writer’s Guild is fascinating:
The Battle of Britain, Part One
The first reported use of the buy button weapon was in the United Kingdom. Early in 2008, Amazon removed the buy buttons from hundreds of Bloomsbury titles. Bloomsbury is a major British publisher, publishing authors such as William Boyd, Khaled Hosseini, and J.K. Rowling. Amazon and Bloomsbury resolved their differences on undisclosed terms, and the lights went back on for all of Bloomsbury’s books.
The Battle of Britain, Part Two
The second use of the buy button weapon in the U.K. that we know of came later that year, when one of the world’s largest publishers, Hachette Livre UK, took the hit. The publisher’s CEO, Tim Hely Hutchinson, wrote in a letter to authors, “Amazon seems each year to go from one publisher to another making increasing demands in order to achieve richer terms at our expense and sometimes at yours.”
In response, The Writer’s Guild created Whomovedmybutton.com. The service immediately notifies authors (or anyone) when Amazon makes status changes to any of the titles you are monitoring.If you are an author with a book on Amazon, it’s highly recommended you use this free service.
“But no. Instead, we got the Foot-Stompingly Petulant Friday Night Massacre: One minute the books were there, the next they weren’t. And everyone was left going “huh?” Was it a hardware glitch? Was it a software bug? Was it a terrorist act in which renegade Amish attacked Amazon’s server farm and poured jugs of hard cider into the machines, shorting out the ones holding Macmillan’s vasty inventory? No! It was one corporate entity having a big fat hissy fit at another corporate entity…”
Look at this. Gawker appears to be slowly spinning its Deadspin title into more of a comprehensive male-oriented site Deadspin XY. It makes sense for Denton to capitalize on the audience, especially since the blog faces so much competition in the very segment it practically created.
It’s like Esquire’s more athletic brother. Wonder when we’ll see the first post on fashion.
Conservative sites are trumpeting the latest Rasmussen Poll results:
“…daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 22% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. “
39% of Americans want government to stay out of Medicare.
47% of American adults don’t know how long it takes for the Earth to revolve around the Sun.
60% of Americans cannot name more than four of the Ten Commandments.
20% of Americans believe the Electoral College “trains those aspiring for higher office” or “was established to supervise the first televised presidential debates.”
57% of Americans cannot name one current Supreme Court justice.
80% of Americans say that they cannot live without a their DVR.
40% don’t vote.
So it sure is a good thing we are paying attention to Americans’ opinions on the President’s performnace, no
and wind struck down these giants, and they threw their bodies into the waters, but in their rage, the gods forgot self-respect and left it on the spreadsheet. We who found it are just men. Not gods. Not giants. Just men. The secret of a good remake has always carried with it a mystery. You must learn its riddle, Conan. You must learn its discipline. For no one - no one in this world can you trust. Not men, not women, not beasts, not Lionsgate.”
