Great Bumper Stickers

My wife saw a car with an amusing combination of bumper stickers:  Be Patient Student Driver and Student Driver: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid.

Yet Another Public Health Reason

2/24/23 UPI:

"Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Daily marijuana users face a one-third more chance of developing coronary artery disease compared to those who have never used the substance, according to research released Friday from the American College of Cardiology."

I am convinced George Soros funds the marijuana stuff to take down America. 

Checking Primary Sources

 From N.J.'s brief defending their requirement of affirmative consent from private property owners for licensees. 

“New Orleans in 1816, Ex. 7, prohibited “any person to enter into a public ball-room with any … weapon.” 

Left out is that the law provides:

Article 1. It shall not be lawful for any person to enter into a public ball-room with any cane, stick, sword or any other weapon , and every person having either a cane, stick, sword, or any other weapon, shall, before he enter the ball-room , deposit the same at the office which shall be at the door of the entrance of said ball-room, where there will be a person appointed to receive and take care of such articles, which he shall carefully keep, affixing to each article a number, a check of which be shall give to the owner ; and said articles shall not be returned to the persons respectively depositing them, until said persons are quitting the ball , and produce their checks.[1][emphasis added]

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[1] Digest Of The Ordinances And Resolutions Of The Second Municipality Of New Orleans, In Force May 1 , 1840 124-5 (1840).

Winning the Battle for Gun Rights

2/26/23 NPR:

Mass shootings targeting LGBTQ spaces and a rise in anti-trans rhetoric have inspired some queer people to take up arms. New Hampshire Public Radio's Todd Bookman joined the monthly gathering of a gun group that sees firearms as key to their own self-defense. And as you might imagine, the story does include the sound of gunfire.

TODD BOOKMAN, BYLINE: On a recent Sunday morning, the parking lot of Pawtuckaway State Park in southeastern New Hampshire is filling up with hikers. There's also a different crew packing up warm clothes and weapons.

FIN SMITH: Thank you all for coming to Rainbow Reload.

BOOKMAN: Today's organizer is Fin Smith. Like everybody else in this story, they've requested some level of anonymity because they fear for their safety.

SMITH: I recognize the temperature is freezing, and this is not the most comfortable, but if it's raining, we're training. If it's snowing, we're going.

BOOKMAN: Groups like Rainbow Reload exist around the country, often called pink pistol clubs. It's a place for experts and the gun-curious to practice and improve their shooting, but this goes beyond hobby. There's a practical goal here, to prepare and protect themselves.

SMITH: If the world is dangerous, then you have to be dangerous back. And that very much has pushed me into where I am now.

LGBTQWTF and drag shows for children bug me, but everyone has a right to be left alone.  Sometimes, shooting back is the only to fix that. 

But the Science!

Fascinating article in Quaternary Research Reviews.

Mid- to Late Holocene climate change: an overview

A discussion of temperature change over the last 11,000 years.

"The Holocene defines the period during which civilisation

developed. Published sources provide multiple examples of societal

collapses that occurred during the last 6000 years, on local and

regional scales, synchronous with abrupt shifts to drier and/or

colder climate regimes (McGhee, 1981; Weiss et al., 1993; Hodell

et al., 1995; Dalfes et al., 1996; Weiss and Bradley, 2001; deMenocal,

2001). The frequency of wars has also been closely tied to climate

variations during the past millennium (Zhang et al., 2001), testi-

fying to the central importance of climate changes to human well-

being."

Everyone Needs A Laugh

 Over at Quora, a question and answer:

Do you feel safe with a gun?

Mike Stone

Upvoted by 

Jim Landerkin

, NRA Certified Firearms Instructor and Chief Range Safety Officer and 

Denny Davis

, Have owned and safely used firearms for over 50 yearsAuthor has 6.7K answers and 16.5M answer views3y

Absolutely. All of my guns are very well behaved and pose no threat to me at all. I raised most of them from when they were little derringers. They are well trained and highly disciplined. I have to admit though that one of them sassed me one day. I put it to bed that night without any ammo and it hasn’t caused any problems since.

March 1: Conjunction

Jupiter, Moon, and Venus will be in conjunction within a degree of each other.  If you have a telescope or a fairly long lens on your camera it might be a good time to take a photo.  I plan to, weather allowing.

Oh yes, the conjunction also means you need to empty all your bank accounts and send them to your favorite blogger or your love life is shot.  Remember Tycho Brahe: "Astronomy is the bastard child of the whore astrology."