Starting Off the Work Week

From NPR's "Tiny Desk" concert series:

Olde TV

I found a DVD of a few episodes of an old TV show called Follow That Man. It was also known as Man Against Crime.

The series was broadcast live for its yearly years. The last two years were filmed, so some of them are available.

If you want to see what crime TV was like 65 years ago, here's an episode:

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

B-52:

B-52s will still be flying when a goodly percentage of the people reading this post today are drinking mead in Valhalla.

Caturday

A working dog:

It Takes All Kinds to Run for Congress

[Asswipe the Incel], a 37-year-old accountant from Charlottesville, Virginia, is running for Congress as an independent candidate in his native state. He is also a pedophile, as he admitted to HuffPost on Thursday, who has bragged in website posts about raping his late ex-wife.

Pedophile, neo-Nazi, admitted rapist, wannabee slaveowner; this clown and convicted felon pretty much hates everybody.

Decisions on Sights

The Model 27 that I recently bought has a red front ramp insert. Come to find out, that means that it would be fairly easy to install these night sights:

They're as low as $73-ish. Or I could get the front sight alone for $40-ish.

Decisions....

Barr, Bee & Trump

What Samantha Bee and Roseanne Barr each said was inexcusable. Dealing with them is the province of each of their networks.

What is even more inexcusable is Trump's weighing in. He is the fucking president; by demanding that Bee apologize and that TBS cancel her show, he is tromping all over the First Amendment.

Let's be clear on this: The First Amendment and the cases that define it are pretty clear that the government does not generally have the right to demand that any entity say what the government wants them to say and not say what displeases the government.

But hey, to expect that Trump or his duly-appointed mouthpiece, Sarah Huckabee-Sanders, have any understanding of what Freedom of Speech means is a stretch and a half. It's pretty clear that Trump thinks that the right to speak freely only applies to those people who are giving him a verbal fluffing of his ego.

If TBS had any thought of canceling Bee's show, doing so, now, would show them to be nothing more than a pack of spineless bootlickers.

Will Trump Now Pardon Bernie Madoff?

Trump may think that Dinesh D'Souza was treated unfairly, but the facts established at the time were pretty clear: D'Souza used other people as straw men to exceed campaign donation limits, then lied about it. In Trump's view, "being treated unfairly" is pretty much a synonym for "getting caught".

And D'Souza was caught. He pled guilty. Unlike this guy, who'll probably get a pardon soon.

Trump's sending a pretty clear signal that the peccadilloes of the rich, his friends and other politicians will be winked at. He might not go so far as to let Dennis Hastert off the hook, since Hastert engaged in pedophilia. But even that might not be too awful for a man who has, on several occaisions, commented that he'd like to bang his own daughter.

Wear Orange, If You Want

So, the new kids want people to wear orange to protest gun violence.

Lots of people already wear orange. Like these guys:

I'm also seeing lots of people using a variant of "never again" as a hashtag for this issue.

Riiight. The world said: "Never again" after the Holocaust. Ask the people of Cambodia or Rwanda or Bosnia or South Sudan or Burma how that's worked out for them. Ask the people in China who have been slaughtered by the millions since 1949.

"Never again" is a hollow promise. The old saying that "in the world of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" applies to gun-free zones and a kid with a gun. But if the Children's Crusade wants to wear orange, fine. Makes them feel as though they're doing something.

Because It's Friday

Old Swedish steam: