Author Archives: Jeff Porten

  • Melody Kramer:
    I refuse to try any more social media things until there’s just a social media thing called “Larry” for people named Larry.

If it’s funded by people in their mid-40s, it’ll be called “Hello, Larry.”

“: 712 killed/1,633 wounded, April was Iraq’s bloodiest month since 6/08. Reuters” // “Judged by history” working out great.

Falling asleep on the bus: easy.

Falling asleep on the bus until 90 minutes after the bus has arrived at last stop: takes real talent.

  • TJ Luoma:
    ARGH. Just yesterday I read about a ¿new? iPhone camera app which could share to a bunch of social sites, plus FTP. Can’t find it now.

Huh. Never seen that use of ? punctuation before. I like it.

  • TJ Luoma:
    I find it’s useful for conveying that hint of uncertainty which would be clear in spoken communication. Feel free to use it :-)

  • Melody Kramer:
    You are my favorite tweeter. Don’t ever forget that, snookums.

I think you misclicked the “direct message” button.

“@acarvin: 712 killed/1,633 wounded, April was Iraq’s bloodiest month since 6/08. Reuters” // “Judged by history” working out great.

I may steal the use of “privileged schmuckola” for use in everyday conversation.

So about that kid who killed his sister…

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Somehow I had gotten it into my head that the rifle a five-year-old used to accidentally shoot his two-year-old sister must’ve been a BB gun or something. I mean, not that you should leave a kid alone with a BB gun, but it had to be a gun out of a 1950s comic book, right?

This Mother Jones article made me realize that I had made that assumption. So I continued onward to the Crickett rifle website. If you haven’t checked it out yourself, you really must. This goes double for any of my international readers, because it’s probably been hours since you had another proof that the United States is clinically insane.

Now, I’m the first to say that I don’t know shit about firearms. (When I say “comic book BB gun”, it’s with a vague understanding that BB guns are generally only suitable for killing squirrels and the family pet, and that it takes really bad luck to kill a human with one.) But it seems that a .22 rifle is actually a real gun. It’s the one the Boy Scouts use because it hurts less to use (lower recoil), but here’s the Wikipedia picture of suitable ammo for My First Rifle:

Mother Jones also informs me that there’s a booming business in bulletproof clothing and backpacks for children. Because, you know, gun rights.

Obama affirms belief in existence of the magical uterus

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You know, it’s not so much that I’m surprised to find that I’m to the left of the Obama administration again. It’s that he’s going out of his way to meddle in this when both the FDA and the courts provide plenty of political cover for a decision to leave this the hell alone.

This is the decision of someone who believes that the government has a moral obligation to ensure that any 13-year-old who gets raped, assaulted by family, drunk, or drugged, and then gets knocked up, has to go through with an abortion or bearing a child. Because, you know, otherwise she might sleep around too much.

U.S. to Defend Age Limits on Morning-After Pill Sales

Dr. John P. Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science & Technology, at @AAAS_RDBudget event – LIVE on C-SPAN3 cs.pn/C3LIVE