via Trace Gallagher, being interviewed by Sean Hannity. Not sure what’s going on here, but I thought it worth mentioning. Also worth mentioning: Giffords is able to move and respond to simple commands (Gallagher intimated on both on the left and right side) suggesting that she’s able to process language (her eloquence brain seems unaffected) and retains gross motor function. Developing…

As a rough estimate, about 51,999,999 households, responsible for the legal care of 259,999,999 guns, did not shoot up a political meetup at a Safeway this weekend — despite the climate of overheated political rhetoric and conservative-bred HATE that practically compels them to do so. You’re welcome.

Bullitt, Hot Rock, Friend of Eddie Coyle, Breaking Away, The Deep, Eyewitness… They don’t make ’em like that anymore. And don’t even get me started on Mother, Jugs & Speed…

Tommy is Rae Dawn…: Is America becoming less politically stable? A glance at some foreign newspapers would certainly give that impression. This is an important economic question. The global primacy of Treasury bonds and the dollar stems mostly from the nation’s massive economic might. But confidence in U.S. political stability also plays a role. The shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, though tragic, shouldn’t alter those perceptions — unless freedom

So says Pennsylvania’s Bob Brady who, in response to the Arizona shootings, plans to introduce a bill that would ban heated rhetoric and symbolism that, well, some interpretive community (presumably made up of those “reasonable people” who happen to be in power at any given time, having weighed all the pros and cons of determining how their ruling might payoff politically) determines is threatening. Having myself been told that my

Quick! We must act now! Maybe later, when the smoke clears, we can ask Congress for our freedoms back. I’m sure they’ll happily comply.