Displaying 3,091 To 3,120 Of 3,373 Comments This is offered only in the spirit of seeing all sides, and is in no way meant as defense of a person with whom I share probably no more than an atom of agreement on ANYTHING. From his website: –On today » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 13, 2010 @ 5:50 pm All We are Saying, is Give Nukes a Chance. » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 5, 2010 @ 8:45 pm WE ONLY WANT TO SERVE MAN. (for breakfast) » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 5, 2010 @ 8:43 pm WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS. » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 5, 2010 @ 8:34 pm a rakish fellow, he! » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 4, 2010 @ 5:07 pm Hey! Who’s “we”? » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 4, 2010 @ 4:21 pm I got twelve. Here’s the rule. Whenever a quiz like this has an “all of the above” option, it’s all of the above. » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 4, 2010 @ 4:09 pm Great Spam mail advertising a sexual potency pill I received yesterday: Score Like Tiger Woods! » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 4, 2010 @ 4:07 pm Wow! I can add “psychic” to my list of talents. Right next to….uh, uh…. Seriously, that’s a beautiful name, Abby. » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 5, 2010 @ 4:10 am Be my guest. And if you want, you can call it, “Dr. StrangeAbby; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Heart the Bomb”. (the article, not the baby) » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 5, 2010 @ 1:14 am Baby pictures.
» Posted By whatsthatsound On January 4, 2010 @ 11:07 pm I think they’ve decided on Gabby. » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 4, 2010 @ 10:02 pm Predictions: » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 4, 2010 @ 9:45 pm Maybe “that is what people on blogs do”, but on PlanetPOV we do it with much greater civility and respect than you do in this post. I have never seen a more uncalled for response on this site, and I hope I never do again. » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 5, 2010 @ 4:20 pm Great angry, scary song from Graham Parker and the Rumour
» Posted By whatsthatsound On January 4, 2010 @ 11:50 pm To paraphrase Pastor Martin Niem » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 4, 2010 @ 5:35 pm OT, but how come God never blogs here anymore? Was it just a one and done? I thought having the Big Fella around gave real class to this joint. » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 4, 2010 @ 12:04 am Saying that Huffpo “competes” with the New York Times is like saying that “Monday Nite Football” competes with the Dallas Cowboys. The teams go out there and do the work, and MNF just televises it, comments on it, and slurps up all the advertising revenue. » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 3, 2010 @ 11:48 pm Flattery will get you everywhere, Abby! » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 4, 2010 @ 12:34 am Nukes don’t wipe out cities; PEOPLE wipe out cities! » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 4, 2010 @ 12:11 am Yeah, that’s my meaning too. The psychological impact is the greatest victory they achieve. Media is the most effective technological “weapon” in their arsenal now, because it enables acts that involve even a small number of victims to impact hundreds of millions, and just as importantly, government policies.I’m with you; I wish individuals could consider that they have very little chance of being a victim of terrorism. But, as you write, “threats that cannot be fully known or expected” are the scariest of all, and that works to the terrorist’s advantage. » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 3, 2010 @ 11:25 pm This misses the point, KQ. The fact is that terrorists will continue to seek greater and greater ways to cause damage. The threat of being struck by lightning, being hit by a car, or being a victim of violent crime, don’t change much from year to year. Terror technology has the potential (and that’s the key word) to increase exponentially. If it’s not a dirty bomb, it will be a virus (potentially far more deadly) or something else. My point is that with terrorists, the will to do violence far exceeds the capacity, and that is a gap they would love to close. That’s what people sense, and that’s what they are afraid of. » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 3, 2010 @ 10:44 pm The problem is that it is almost IMPOSSIBLE to put the threat of terrorism in perspective. And the reason for that can be summed up in two words, “dirty bombs”. None has ever been exploded, and I don’t think anyone knows for sure just how far any group has progressed in terms of actually carrying such an attack out. Still, with one dirty bomb attack, a group could do more damage than has been done by pretty much all terrorists ever, in history. This is what keeps people up at night, from law enforcement officials to moms and dads. » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 3, 2010 @ 9:24 pm Guns, Knives, Hammers and Bricks* Ah, that Mel! » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 4, 2010 @ 1:07 am Obviously, we could do a lot better, in this and so many other ways. Levitt, in a dispassionate, -just-the-statistics- way, made a good case, I felt. Being in Japan, I wasn’t all that aware of the firestorm that erupted when the book came out, from church groups. But of course I would have been surprised if a firestorm HADN’T erupted. » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 3, 2010 @ 9:18 pm Then I’ll keep the MFL thing going and riff on Henry Higgins, “By George, I think she’s got it!” » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 3, 2010 @ 5:24 pm As Eliza’s dad says in My Fair Lady, “Work? DON’T say that word in my presence!” » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 3, 2010 @ 5:08 pm ” I don » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 3, 2010 @ 4:51 pm Hi Abby, » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 3, 2010 @ 1:11 am I just read it. Thanks. I think a good question to proceed from is, why has there even been a call to ban guns? Knives and bricks have been around for millennia, and yet I am unaware of any outcry against them, ever. This would tend to indicate that there is something intrinsically different about guns, just as nuclear weapons are intrinsically different from other weapons (the massiveness of the destruction, the ease with which such destruction is carried out, the radioactivity and birth defects that follow, etc.) . » Posted By whatsthatsound On January 3, 2010 @ 12:54 amComments Posted By whatsthatsound
Abby’s baby will:
speak at six months
win arguments by two years
blog by the age of four
change her mom’s ideas about guns by……..
blog by the age of four
“Don’t Ask Me Questions”
It skews the equation, dramatically, and as long as that threat exists, nobody will ever be able to think of terrorism as less threatening, or even less likely, than lightning or car accidents.
But, as you point out, even if Levitt is 100% accurate, his findings point less toward the efficacy of abortion in reducing crime than they do that our society lacks compassion for far too many of its members.
Indeed, it is morning here.
Please refer to the two questions I wrote below, under your comment to me about the addendum. I think they are germane in regards to this post of yours.
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Another good question would be: who are some of the people calling for guns, or at least semi-automatic rifles, to be outlawed? If they include police officers and police departments (I am pretty sure they do) then, again, this would indicate an intrinsic separation between guns and other weapons.
Obviously, many things to consider. Great post, Abby! It has caused me to exercise this ol’ noggin!
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