Happy Easter All!

Please set your laziness levels to: Indolent

Posted by: Maetenloch at 06:01 PM | Comments (386)
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Fresh, clean, new, now with 50% more lilac smell.

I don't know who torched the oil wells in Syria, but that's usually a sign of desperation. Somebody is on the ropes...

Apple denied trademark for iPad Mini. Might be a kindness...this is a product searching for a market. Too big to be conveniently pocketable, like a phone, but with all the well known usability issues of normal sized tablets magnified by its diminutive stature. Why would anyone buy one, unless... ah... ummm... because its Apple and will impress my friends?

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Which is the better way to cover the subject of guns with children?

1) Teach them that it is best to be utterly ignorant and terrified of firearms, to the point where merely chewing a poptart into a vague gun-shape seems like reasonable cause for punishment; or

2) This other method, called 'actual education,' right here.

Yep, that's SobekPundit's little 10 year-old crocodile sprout. And please do check out his 'ten things to teach boys,' a few items down in the comments section.

Liberals say about themselves that they value education, and broad-mindedness in general. But it seems to me that this depends on the subject matter, doesn't it? When it comes to firearms they are hysterically pro-ignorance.

H/T Sobek.

Posted by: LauraW at 06:04 AM | Comments (135)
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Back in 2010 I sent in an email naming James Madison an honorary Moron, which you kindly posted here and attributed to a semi-anonymous retired blogger:

Today I would like to nominate another Great Moron of History: J.S. Bach.

Oh, sure, everyone thinks he was a frumpy old Lutheran who wrote motets, but I would direct the Moron Horde's attention to possibly one of the greatest pieces of Moron music until Paul Anka gave the cutoffs on My Way: Bach's Peasant Cantata, BWV 212.

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Posted by: Dave in Texas at 10:09 AM | Comments (124)
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Happy Easter.

Posted by: andy at 04:09 AM | Comments (179)
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Alleluiah

Good morning morons and moronettes and welcome to the Sunday Morning Book Thread here at the award-winning AoSHQ.

First, An Apology

For all of you who are reading this but are unable to post comments due to the aggressive anti-spam rules that have been put in place, my sincere apologies, and I hope it will be changed soon. For what it's worth, I (still) can't post comments, either. I've e-mailed Pixy several times over the past month about this, and he assured me he was going to fix it, but it hasn't happened, yet, and I don't know when it will.

But, a few days ago, Pixy showed up in a comment thread and posted the mu.nu "help-line" e-mail address:

help@mu.nu

So, for those of us who are unable to post comments on this blog, I would encourage you to send a quick note to Pixy. And please keep it civil, Pixy's a good guy.

This should give him an idea of the extent of the problem, if he doesn't know already.

And now down to business...

A few weeks ago when I did a thread about noted ex-slave merchant and Christian author John Newton, someone posted a comment late in the thread complaining about me posting about religious views he didn't agree with. This caught me a bit by surprise, because I had always figured that if people don't like the book thread, they would just skip it and go on to the next thread, no big deal. I'm not going to apologize for posting on spiritual topics, although I do keep in mind that the AoSHQ readership includes people of many faiths, or no faith. So even though this won't turn into some sort of religion round-up, I will post on such topics as the occasion warrants.

So with that in mind, fair warning, here comes another spiritually-oriented thread.

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Posted by: Open Blogger at 06:57 AM | Comments (240)
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See, we're not really robbing you per se, we're giving you a "share" in the enterprise!

...Under conditions expected to be announced on Saturday, depositors in Bank of Cyprus will get shares in the bank worth 37.5 percent of their deposits over 100,000 euros, the source told Reuters, while the rest of their deposits may never be paid back...

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Next to last day of March. Hopefully it feels like Spring in April. I'm told the above image is early concept work done for Prometheus 2.

The election is over, now feel the pain of an EPA plan that has been ready for 15 months. New EPA rules to add 9 cents a gallon to cost of gas. Of course, these same idiots will keep voting the way they do no matter how painful the party they support makes it for them.

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Posted by: CDR M at 05:40 PM | Comments (573)
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This "blame whitey" piece is unintentionally (I think) hilarious.

Imagine if African American men and boys were committing mass shootings month after month, year after year. Articles and interviews would flood the media, and we’d have political debates demanding that African Americans be “held accountable.” Then, if an atrocity such as the Newtown, Conn., shootings took place and African American male leaders held a news conference to offer solutions, their credibility would be questionable. The public would tell these leaders that they need to focus on problems in their own culture and communities.

But when the criminals and leaders are white men, race and gender become the elephant in the room.

That first paragraph is very nearly self-refuting. A couple of Newtowns worth of people, almost exclusively African American people, die on the streets of gun control-loving Chicago every month, yet the media flood the authors suggest would happen simply hasn't. I wonder why that is ... ?

But if they want to go there, then, by all means, let's go there.

Looks to me like (a) the black homicide rate dwarfs the white homicide rate and (b) the gap is greatest where gun control is most strict.

This should come as no surprise, since gun control first got a toehold in this country by being directed at minorities (Native Americans, freed slaves, immigrants).

In addition to being unconstitutional and impractical, gun control also has a disparate impact on minorities. Next time you hear some lefty going on about it, ask him why he's such a racist.

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OK, we've heard you.

And by "we", I mean John E. and me, as I'm pretty sure Ace's thoughts on this topic range from indifferent to downright hostile after the Great T-Shirt Debacle of Aught Six (or whenever that was ... I didn't look, but 7 years feels about right) [Update: It was Aught Five. Thanks 'brak'].

So we've done some investigating and plan on standing up a web storefront for you and will use third-party fulfillment to make everything run nice and smooth.

We'll come back to you with detailed designs later, but please take a second to vote in the poll below and indicate what kind of AoSHQ-logo'd products you'd be interested in ordering. Also, throw out any design ideas in the comments.

And by logo, I don't mean that crayon drawing up at the top of the blog ...
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