Mail Bombs

This close to the midterms, I have many thoughts on this, but unlike the usual suspects, I'll keep them to myself until we get something called evidence. Ya know, that thing the Left cares nothing for anymore.

Selective Memory, Democrat Style

Which is fucking always.

Well, except when they brought a rifle to a baseball field. https://t.co/zTKA4hPgfh

— Instapundit.com (@instapundit) October 12, 2018

Civility

Truck set on fire because of pro-Trump stickers, owner says

The owner had a few too many and left his truck in the bar's parking lot while he took an Uber home. His transgression? Two Trump stickers on the rear bumper.

I wonder how many school children...

...you could scare with this picture?

Oh, and how's that new civility working for ya?

Limbaugh v. Maher

They are both political commentators: Limbaugh for VIB and Maher for HBO. BOTH are entertainers though how entertaining varies from Left to Right. BOTH think they are hilarious while in truth only Rush gets an occasional giggle from me. Oh, and Maher gave one million dollars to an Obama leaning superpac. THAT, Mr. Axlerod, is the only difference that matters to you, so please understand why, when you and you master lecture me on civility, you get only this.

I'd pretty much decided to sit this one out but...

...a bunch of oxygen thieves won't let it go so...

H/T to Borepatch

That is all.

Well...

...fu, ummm, frack! Better watch your language in Kansas. It might land your ass in jail.

H/T to Radley.

Heinlein: Signs of a Sick Culture

From the Quotable Heinlein

What are the marks of a sick culture?

It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.

A very bad sign. Particularism. It was once considered a Spanish vice but any country can fall sick with it. Dominance of males over females seems to be one of the symptoms.

Before a revolution can take place, the population must loose faith in both the police and the courts.

High taxation is important and so is inflation of the currency and the ratio of the productive to those on the public payroll. But that's old hat; everybody knows that a country is on the skids when its income and outgo get out of balance and stay that way - even though there are always endless attempts to wish it way by legislation. But I started looking for little signs and what some call silly-season symptoms.

I want to mention one of the obvious symptoms: Violence. Muggings. Sniping. Arson. Bombing. Terrorism of any sort. Riots of course - but I suspect that little incidents of violence, pecking way at people day after day, damage a culture even more than riots that flare up and then die down. Oh, conscription and slavery and arbitrary compulsion of all sorts and imprisonment without bail and without speedy trial - but those things are obvious; all the histories list them.

I think you have missed the most alarming symptom of all. This one I shall tell you. But go back and search for it. Examine it. Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms as you have named... But a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than a riot.

This symptom is especially serious in that an individual displaying it never thinks of it as a sign of ill health but as proof of his/her strength. Look for it. Study it. It is too late to save this culture - this worldwide culture, not just the freak show here in California. Therefore we must now prepare the monasteries for the coming Dark Age. Electronic records are too fragile; we must again have books, of stable inks and resistant paper.

Friday and Dr. Baldwin in Friday

Considering my tendency towards profanity on this blog, this gives me a bit to think about. Am I gonna stop cussing? Probably not but I'll think about it.