I’m not sure about the very definition but I know the first time I came to the states & saw people start in on yelling at (& even shoving) a policeman with a gun who was trying to get a busker to move from the spot they’d picked it was hard to get my head around...

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things

I don’t claim to be a particularly gifted student of history...but as far as I can tell pretty much everybody has been scared of one thing or another since approximately forever...though I take your point...

with regard to the “background checks wouldn’t have helped” thing...I’m ashamed to say I forget which of these god-awful events it related to but there was definitely at least one time when, had the flag in one system (O want to say Air Force) been applied to the civilian equivalent the shooter in question would at…

ironically it seems as though a good number of aficionados of that particular model pride themselves on it being an essential part of their efforts to guard against the misuse & abuse of the power of the state by those who would co-opt it with intent to do harm to them & theirs...

there’s a piece on the BBC (audio/iPlayer) called Rape Trials: Is The Jury Out? which makes some interesting points if you have time to listen...

Gaming With Style broke that duck & pulled it up...although Hollylujah (& possibly some others) did point out the pale imitation thing beneath it...guess all that copy/paste work got them there in the end...

people in these parts talk up the legendary troll Tomatoface like he’s the Kinja-verse’s answer to The Dread Pirate Roberts from the Princess Bride...so in all honesty when I clocked that “metal health” typo one thought I had was “if this is actually an artful recreation of a bad troll job covering for an unbelievably…

it certainly is a hallmark of these threads that there is seldom a long wait for a certain brand of comments to surface anytime shots are fired...

perhaps...but I’m lucky enough not to have seen that one...& I think you may be underestimating how big a soft spot I have for Top Secret...but to be sure, oi don’t make t’rules...begorrah...

they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but I don’t think they had this bell-end in mind...

On March 13, 2015, Capital New York and other news organizations reported that 50 of the 15,000 IP addresses belonging to the NYPD were associated with edits, dating back to 2006, to English Wikipedia articles, including this article on the Amadou Diallo shooting. These IP addresses geolocate to NYPD headquarters at 1…

You spent 500 words meandering around the outskirts of the obvious point

you’re not wrong...but when you could only find my contributios either because you’d signed on for trawling the grays or when someone who had done pulled one of them out they felt like optional asides in a wider conversation...whereas now every time I click “publish” I feel a little like I’m forcing my way into that…

between you, me & the gatepost I'm not at all sure I didn't prefer life in the greys...I guess I can't judge if I was/am better suited to it but it certainly felt more comfortable...

less reflective & more reflexive...in the sense of knee-jerking...

what can I say...my parents said if I didn’t mind my manners & wound up embarassing them they wouldn’t let me play with the neighborhood kids any more & I’d be stuck in my room swearing at the news all on my own...

hey, now...that’s a little harsh...

not all in one sitting but I’m pretty sure that if I ever run into an appeal to Michelle Malkin I’ll have collected the set...so thanks for that, I needed something to grin about & that worked pretty well...

where's Woody Guthrie when you need him...aside from presumably spinning in his grave fast enough to keep the lights on at the White House...24/7...