The Smallest Minority

This is me in ICU post-op from the liver transplant.  And they had the machine that goes "PING!" I'm much better now!

Damn.  Just damn.  RTWT. The Side-Takers by Tom Kendall.  Pullquote: It took, as I recall, all of between two weeks and a month, for mo...

0847 Hours BATTALION 1: Battalion 1 to Manhattan. DISPATCHER: Battalion 1. BATTALION 1: We just had a - a plane crashed into an upper flo...

Voices:  Stories from 9/11 and Beyond .  Strongly recommended.

Not my content, but I HAD to share.  In response to the question "Why is there so much dishonesty in the gun debate?"  The questio...

The new kidney is functional.  I was told today "no more dialysis"!!  The first night of getting up every 90 minutes to two hour...

For my non-Facebooking readers, I received a call from Mayo Tuesday morning - they had a kidney.  Had the surgery Tuesday evening.  They...

Stanisław Aronson, Polish Jew, veteran of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, wrote something everyone should read:  I Survived the Warsaw Ghetto. H...

In 2010 a Justice Department study looked at the efficacy of the Brady Background Check, the one that requires all purchasers of firear...

Feds say nearly a third of firearms recovered in the state are homemade, unserialized, and untraceable An Investigation by NBC Bay Area in...

I've always liked Stossel:

If Afghan tribesmen can manufacture AK-47's in caves with hand tools, imagine what you can do with just a small shop at home.  Or even l...

Here's a short, pithy exchange from Quora.  The original answer is mine. Original question: “How many ‘good guys with guns’ have save...

I don't know who came up with this, but I cannot disagree with it: Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding on what to have for di...

Even if it’s pure incompetence, it’s Third World level incompetence. And that’s a best-case scenario.   -- Glenn Reynolds, commenting on ...

In the aftermath of more rampage shootings, Quora has become, unsurprisingly, a hotbed of gun control questions, such as: Why are guns sti...

Recent question over at Quora: "What's pretty much over but society hasn't quite given up on it yet?" My answer: ...

Always remember:  In any group of people, half are at or below the median level of intelligence. From my friend the Merchant of Death™ com...