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Movie review bonanza
I know I said I would post a review of Wreck-It Ralph, but I got distracted by the new semester. And also by a few other movies. I also forgot to review Jack Reacher after I saw it in December, so I’ll...
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Jack Reacher, or the exception to the rule that adaptations are worse than...
The Jack Reacher novels suck. The action is okay, but the plots are predictable, and Lee Child’s ignorance of firearms is staggering. If you’re reading a Reacher novel, prepare to be lectured about...
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Shut up and take my money! – Bungie edition
I haven’t played a multiplayer FPS in some time, but Destiny looks awesome:
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HAVA heart…
Donate to Honored American Veterans Afield by the end of March, send Linoge a enough of a copy of your receipt that he can verify you donated, and you’ll get one entry to win nifty prizes for every $5...
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Remember, gentle reader, that under federal law, “firearm” has a very...
A firearm is: (1) a shotgun having a barrel or barrels of less than 18 inches in length; (2) a weapon made from a shotgun if such weapon as modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches or a...
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Crunch time.
The final draft of my law review note is due Friday at noon. Between that and my part time jobs and classes (and the damn time change), I’m exhausted. Spring break is next week, though, so I’ll be able...
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In the immortal words of Michael Bay*
Shit just got real. Yes, the IMF and the EU rammed a ~10% tax on bank account assets down Cyprus’s throat as a condition of Cyprus’s bailout (I’m not even going to get into whether bailouts are a good...
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Intermediate scrutiny is the new rational basis
At least in the Fourth Circuit. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision reversed the district court’s decision in Woollard v. Sheridan (which had invalidated the Maryland concealed carry...
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Three cheers for SCOTUS!*
Yesterday, in a 5-4 decision, the Court held that bringing a drug dog onto the curtilage of a house constituted a search under the Fourth Amendment. This seems like common sense, but given the Court’s...
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Overheard in Jurisprudence
In class last night, while discussing Dworkin and the objective nature of morality: Student: I’m just saying that somewhere there’s probably at least one person who thinks that putting babies on stakes...
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A month’s worth of movie reviews
In reverse chronological order: GI Joe: Retaliation was pretty good, if a bit light on plot (but hey, it’s GI Joe; just be glad the last half of the movie doesn’t teach you a moral lesson), and a bit...
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Now reading: Terms of Enlistment
By the internet-famous Marko Kloos! I’ve only just started it. First I had to finish A Throne of Bones and Summa Elvetica (both by Vox Day). Terms of Enlistment–a milSF work–should nicely cleanse the...
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Quote of the Indeterminate Time Interval – Bubblehead Les
Over at Shall Not Be Questioned on the Toomey-Manchin deal: This bill is like trying to plug the holes in Swiss Cheese by cutting out plugs from the same slice and inserting them into the holes that...
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What is best in life?
To crush your enemies. See them driven before you. And hear the lamentations of the women. Thanks to all who called their congressmen to read them the riot act. Of course, just because gun control was...
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Remember, gentle reader, that if you’re going to lose, lose big. And then be...
I got the bulk of my gloating in by quoting Conan the Barbarian, but I couldn’t let Bloomberg’s and Giffords’s post-gun-control-failure statements just sit there. Bloomberg, the micro-managing tyrant...
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Still is the story told, / How well Horatius kept the bridge / In the brave...
Macaulay may be no Kipling, but Horatius at the Bridge is still amazing. Oblivion makes great use of a stanza from Horatius (not, obviously, the lines quoted in this post’s title). Much like The Dude’s...
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Treason
Oh, right, I have a blog. Sorry about the absence dearth lack of posts laziness. Anyway, I’ve seen much bandying about of “treason” and such regarding Snowden, the private contractor working for the...
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Schrödinger’s Open Carry in Arkansas
Before I get into the meat of Act 746 of Arkansas’s 89th General Assembly (on which both Clayton Cramer and Sebastian and Bitter have recently written), let me congratulate Illinois on its actual...
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About this pro-gun “Harvard”“study” that is making the internet rounds today
There are a few things that need to be said: 1. It isn’t new; it’s from 2007. 2. It was published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, which is the official journal of the Federalist...
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On rumors that Microsoft’s terms of service are anti-gun
Though the Firearm Blog and Lyle voiced their concerns about Microsoft being the latest in a line of companies to refuse their business to those engaged in lawful commerce in arms, I think their...
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