Category Archives: technology

stop me before I post again

I dropped in to a computer store today to price flat monitors. They’ve come down more than I thought. I might even buy one this year – if I get a job. The houseguest said something about “a reasonable facsimile … Continue reading

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distributed defense

Aubrey Turner reports that Condi Rice, for good personal reasons, is firmly for RKBA. (Link from Bitter Bitch)

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new Ninth Circuit gun case

Though Nordyke v King follows the Ninth Circuit’s gross misreading of US v Miller (1939) in its Hickman ruling, it’s interesting because Gould’s concurrent opinion says: I join the court’s opinion, and write to elaborate that Hickman v. Block, 81 … Continue reading

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letters on sticks

Ian Frazier visits a typewriter wizard (Atlantic Monthly, 1997). Martin Tytell has stories to tell about converting typewriters for other alphabets: There he received his hardest job of the war – a rush request to convert typewriters to twenty-one different … Continue reading

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another hundred bullets

Sunday I went to a target range for the first time in many months. I had what I call a left-handed day, when my ‘weak’ hand was much steadier than my ‘strong’ hand. (On average I’m nearly as accurate with … Continue reading

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meet Mary Rosh

Oh dear: John Lott, scholar-darling of the Gun Lobby, may be dirty. (Julian Sanchez of Cato broke the story.) I hope the Gun Lobby (statist-speak for all of us who don’t buy the victim-punishing dogma of Feinstein, Schumer, Brady et … Continue reading

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thud

I wonder whether statistical “deaths by firearms” include victims of blunt trauma with an empty gun; though I doubt it’s a big number.

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