Goldilocks
How much training is “just right?”
For My Next Trick…
Just like Penn & Teller, the aim is to make sure you're focusing on the hand that seems to be the busiest…while the other hand is perpetrating the real trick.
On Demand
the truth is that we are way past anything like normal demand. What we are seeing is people who will never shoot 1,000 rounds through that brand new pistol buying ammunition by the case…or cases.
Beautiful Loser
To these Vichy Republicans it is not only acceptable to come in second place, it is actually preferable.
Emergency!
It’s an emergency! Well, maybe not that kind of emergency, but the kind which allows our political leaders to seize power.
Free
I’ll grant you that wearing a mask in itself is not really a big deal. In fact, it’s a pretty small deal. But that’s precisely the problem.
Riding The Tiger
here we are, closing in on a year of a worldwide viral pandemic. Many of us are also months into all sorts of government-imposed restrictions and mandates intended at first to “flatten the curve” and avoid overwhelming hospitals, now justified as a means to “stop the spread.” Too bad it doesn’t seem to be working, placing several governors into the unenviable position of riding a tiger which they cannot dismount.
Nuclear
Let’s go nuclear and drop the big one. Let’s stop playing around and really lock down and end this whole China virus thing once and for all.
If Only
“Mayfair has a strict no-gun policy. If the shooter had complied with that policy, no one would have been hurt yesterday.”
Cracks
If our system can allow mistakes of this magnitude to occur honestly, then there is without a doubt more than enough room for cheating.
Joe Versus The Volcano
Lockdowns. Masks. More lockdowns. More masks. It’s the modern equivalent of throwing virgins into the volcano to appease the rain god.
Blood Calculus
It’s all about math, really. I call it “blood calculus”…the implicit or explicit process of balancing lives lost against the various things which make modern life possible. The reality is that our modern life (and let’s face it…all life) is not possible without a certain amount of death factored in. And whether or not we realize it, we live with the results of those calculations every day.