Author: Mark Draughn
A Brief Note to Wayne LaPierre
Wayne LaPierreNational Rifle Association of America11250 Waples Mill RoadFairfax, VA 22030 Dear Wayne, I just received your letter of July 18, 2011 inviting me to your upcoming American Values Leadership Forum at the end of September. I must say, the guest list looks like a conservative all-star lineup — Michele Bachmann, Haley Barbour, John Boehner, John… Read more
Stop.Think.Fail.
After reading about Jennifer’s ambition to “touch every U.S. citizen,” I was randomly poking around the Department of Homeland Security website when I stumbled on this horrifying headline: Secretary Napolitano Announces Stop.Think.Connect. Campaign Partnership with D.A.R.E. America Oh God. The DHS and D.A.R.E. That’s a partnership forged in the pit of hell. I can smell the… Read more
Mysteries of Comcast
So last night around 2am I sat down at my computer and…no internet. Called Comcast and accepted the automated system’s offer to reset my modem. When that didn’t work, I asked for a human being. The technician told me there was an outage in the area, but they couldn’t give me anymore information, and they couldn’t take… Read more
Clowns Of the Left, Jokers Of the Right
Anders Behring Breivik’s terrorist attacks in Norway are bringing out the idiots. For example, from the (more-or-less) right, there’s Cheradenine Zakalwe at Islam Versus Europe in a post titled “Why the Left Shouldn’t Gloat about Anders Breivik”: Reading through Anders Behring Breivik’s comments on the document.no website, it’s clear that he was on the verge… Read more
More Pictures of Hotch
[Update: We renamed this cat “Beezle” (includes video of him playing).] I was going to blog about the President’s speech, but look! Kitty pictures. Hotch Taking all these pictures of Hotch is proving to be more difficult than I expected. For one thing, the color balance is all over the place. The room is actually… Read more