Because our own national media likes to excerpt and edit and pick and choose what to show you. Otherwise, you may not take way the correct lesson — or have the proper context for the planned “outrage” in response. It’s who they are. It’s what they do. So, from the Guardian UK: The National Rifle Association’s 4 million mothers, fathers, sons and daughters join the nation in horror, outrage, grief

Begging the question, then why the fuck did you vote for him? Morons.  

In my previous post on the Boehner failure to get his caucus to fall in line and hike taxes — which would have been the first time they’d done so in decades of their having held a House majority — I half-jokingly attributed to the GOP ruling class establishment the headline, “Stupid unnuanced purists stab only adult in the room in his adroit and savvy back; prove they ain’t worth

Alternate Rovean / Kristol headline:  “Stupid unnuanced purists stab only adult in the room in his adroit and savvy back; prove they ain’t worth the salt in his (orange-tinged) tears” CNS: Conservative members of the House of Representatives dealt a stunning defeat to the House Republican leadership on Thursday night, forcing Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio) to cancel a vote on his “Plan B” tax-increase proposal. Earlier in the evening, the

But no, I don’t regret for a moment having spent the past six months dressed in a jade-colored breechcloth and jaguar skin shirt praying to Kinich Ahau and Itzamna, nor do I regret selling my Willie Mays rookie card to fund a pilgrimage to Caana  and the Cave of the Witch, having first made stops at blessed cities of the northern lowlands like Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Edzná, and Coba —

Which has been a rarity of late.  Still, here she’s on her game: In a nonsense “study” going around the Internet right now, Mother Jones magazine claims to have produced its own study of all public shootings in the last 30 years and concludes: “In not a single case was the killing stopped by a civilian using a gun.” This will come as a shock to people who know something

So they argue in a press release: NEA President Dennis Van Roekel and AFT President Randi Weingarten react to proposals by Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, and William Bennett to arm teachers as a way to prevent school violence. “Our duty to every child is to provide safe and secure public schools. That is the vow we take as educators. It is both astounding and disturbing that

Only, he doesn’t really mean we we.  Because “we” get it wrong.  And how can he teach us all how to live correctly if he isn’t given the latitude to do exactly the opposite of what most of us want done? (h/t palaeomerus)

I know I probably shouldn’t have done it — especially because yesterday was a snowy day with the temperature here in Colorado dipping well below freezing — but on a whim I took all my guns and ammunition out in a small skiff on one of the nearby lakes and, sad to say, the boat capsized when I stupidly tried to prove to myself that I could do it Gangnam