Book the First by Tarzana Joe Canto 1 Speak, O Muse, inform me of this idea that’s been floated Of our financial future—light as lead—but platinum coated A scheme to swell the debt promoted by the best and brightest That to the average citizen makes no sense in the slightest Sisters of invention, boon to artists, wise and fair Tell us how they’ll make a trillion bucks out of thin

Weigh-ins for Districts are this evening, with the tournament tomorrow. It’s an hour ride, so we have to be out of the house tomorrow morning by about 6 am. Because the thought depresses me, I figured I’d post this, from a happier time: last weekend’s season finale dual meet.

In the real world of guns and gun ownership, this is how responsible gun owners and instructors actually think. If we need fear anything gun-related in this country, leaving aside those wicked people who would presume to do us or our family and friends harm, it is the vocal, entitled, and demonstratively ignorant anti-gun zealot who seeks to substitute ostentatious indignation for knowledge and cartoonish scapegoating for reasoned discourse. They

It’s who they are.  It’s what they do. And yes, you may now question their patriotism.  Openly. And often.

MSNBC’s Melissa Harris Perry has got that covered.  Which is important. Because when you’re gardening, you don’t want to be fooled by a cheap imitation tool that refuses to show obeisance to a very specialized and segregated tool box.  What you want is a real, authentic tool. –Like, for instance, Melissa Harris Perry. (h/t JHo)  

Sign the petition. Contact your local government and tell them to follow Wyoming’s lead.  Or Montana’s lead. Loudly proclaim that you don’t care what some rigged politburo and its media propaganda arm insist upon, because they lack legal authority to take away an unalienable right, no matter what they can get some politicized activist court to say — a right, incidentally, Obama would of course keep for himself (though he