Shooting Slowpokes
I blog therefore I am. Forget thinking. If you click on the "Next Blog>>" button in the upper right corner of this page, you'll probably see what I mean. You might be seeing it right here.
(For fun, I just clicked "Next Blog>>." It took me to a site called "The Skinny Epicurean" authored by a food enthusiast that -- I kid you not --- included the quote, "I am definitely suffering from baking withdrawal symptoms. I NEED to bake, soon!!")
It doesn't take thought to form an opinion. You'll meet a lot of people happy to tell you what they think who have done no thinking before they say it. Parroting something they heard on talk radio doesn't count.
The Florida legislature has passed a measure that would punish people who drive slowly in the left lane of multi-lane highways. In what may or may not be related, lawmakers also approved a bill favored by the NRA that would allow people to defend themselves with deadly force in any place where they had a legal right to be. Gone would be the duty to retreat, even in one's own home, when threatened. Now the gloves, or more precisely, the safeties, are off.
The next logical step, of course, is to combine the two bills into one law allowing people to shoot slowpokes who clog the left lanes of highways.
(For fun, I just clicked "Next Blog>>." It took me to a site called "The Skinny Epicurean" authored by a food enthusiast that -- I kid you not --- included the quote, "I am definitely suffering from baking withdrawal symptoms. I NEED to bake, soon!!")
It doesn't take thought to form an opinion. You'll meet a lot of people happy to tell you what they think who have done no thinking before they say it. Parroting something they heard on talk radio doesn't count.
The Florida legislature has passed a measure that would punish people who drive slowly in the left lane of multi-lane highways. In what may or may not be related, lawmakers also approved a bill favored by the NRA that would allow people to defend themselves with deadly force in any place where they had a legal right to be. Gone would be the duty to retreat, even in one's own home, when threatened. Now the gloves, or more precisely, the safeties, are off.
The next logical step, of course, is to combine the two bills into one law allowing people to shoot slowpokes who clog the left lanes of highways.
posted by jack at 2:42 AM
2 Comments:
As a matter of fact, I did arrive here by clicking the "Next Blog" button. And I know how you feel.
I've always wanted a cannon mounted on the hood of my car, but a gun would be adequate, I suppose.
I, too, arrived here by hitting the Next Blog button-- after shifting through blogs in languages I couldn't read, depressing logs about going through divorce, and boring blogs about stamp collecting (OK OK, I do still have my collection from when I was 9, but still!!). Anyway, I will stop here because this one at least made me laugh. And, as a "driving the speed limit" (usually) driver, reminds me to stay to the right!!
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