The Smallest Minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. – Ayn Rand
LuckyGunner.com is, as has been mentioned, putting on a blogshoot. I’ve been waiting for an update from them since the announcement. Well, that first link is to the current page, where Lucky Gunner tells us:
The following “Big Guns” have already confirmed they will be in attendance:
(*cough*cough*cough*)
Full-auto goodness? With free ammo?
Lucky Gunner is putting on a blogshoot in Knoxville, TN over the Memorial Day weekend.
I may have to re-think my idea of flying someone to Reno for Gun Blogger Rendezvous VI.
On second thought, maybe not. United wants over $700 to get to Knoxville.
Damn.
UPDATE, 3/9: Best. Birthday. Present. EVER. (Except maybe for the D.C. Circuit Court Parker decision of 2007.) USCitizen has comped me airline tickets to Knoxville. I’m GOING! See you there!
Yesterday’s QotD came from a comment left by the Geekwitha45 to a previous post. That comment in its entirety goes:
The MSM isn’t broken.
It’s operating effectively, as designed and intended. Unfortunately, being a source of unbiased, deep information is not a design consideration.
What *is* broken is the electorate, which failed to detect that condition and correct for it.
This is why I no longer believe myself to have any duty of conscience to be chained to the outcomes of a broken electorate or electoral process.
Which sucks, because all I ever really wanted from my government was a vigorous defense of my natural rights, in a package that was safe enough to mostly ignore, instead of the ringside seats at the horror show.
Wheee.
One of my co-workers has a cartoon-a-day calendar of New Yorker cartoons. This one is from a few days ago:
I’ve got a few thousand words to say on this topic that I just can’t get written down. I hate when that happens, but I thought I’d share the picture with you and prompt you for your thoughts. Maybe you’ll break my damned dam free.
No thanks to the NRA. Reader Longhornjeff sent me one when he heard I was jealous of Robb’s.
–noun
a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom: The endless lecture produced an unbearable ennui.
I haz it.
I’m having a great time playing at a message board. Target-rich environments are such fun! But time consuming. (All that cut-n-paste!)
Content here at TSM has been admittedly thin of late. Sorry. I’m working on a piece that is long, involved, filled with links and graphs and quotes…
…and is thoroughly harshing my mellow.
It’ll be a few days.
In the mean time, chew on this: Gun laws, access and background checks must be re-examined
That’s from the one remaining daily paper in this town. Yeah, they’re revving up the “gun control” engines again. By all means, read the comments.
I’ve changed ISPs. If you’ve previously used my [email protected] email address, or my other comcast address, they’re no longer active. The new address for blog-related stuff is thesmallestminority(at)gmail(dot)com.
Not precisely true. There are several things I should be posting about, but I can’t work up the enthusiasm to actually do it. Sorry, but the free ice cream machine’s busted. Try again tomorrow.
The first leg of the journey is complete. We’re in Quebec City, in our hotel rooms. It’s 7:45 and pizza is on the way. At both ends of the flight we didn’t bother to put our jackets on (it’s about 18ºF).
I think I’ve acclimated somewhat.
Tomorrow we fly out of Quebec for Chicago, then to Phoenix, and then the two hour drive home.
Oh, wait – it’s Phoenix. The three hour drive home.
Regular blogging will resume shortly. Please pardon the free ice cream interruption.