Nonetheless, I don’t see announcing a guaranteed-to-be-an-unending-disaster free for all national lawsuit festival on cops as the solution here. Just change the law such that confiscating people’s stuff indefinitely without any apparent recourse isn’t so absurdly easy, and certainly not in such a protracted manner, especially in the instance of an infuriating cash grab such as this.

It’s critically important to make the distinction between silly howling babies like Shawn Nee, and people like this who suffer real mistreatment and harm at the hands of the police.

If he’d opted to shut the big, dumb, loud hole under his nose, backed off, and walked away instead of opting for his staccato smart ass confrontational comments, nothing would have happened here, but then again, if nothing happened here, there goes his shot at fucking the taxpayers out of a nice chunk of change, so why not at least take a shot and see if he hits the lottery? It’s a brilliant scam because the probability of sufficiently pissing off a cop such that something less than pleasant happens to you are so incredibly high that you only have to do this a few times before you win, win, win!

It does not surprise me in the least that dealing with the potentially lethally violent scum of the earth on a daily basis shapes the personalities of cops, both the good ones and the bad ones, no matter who they’re dealing with at any particular moment. This is why one of the earliest and most basic life lessons is DON’T FUCK WITH THE COPS OR YOU’LL WISH YOU HADN’T. Yes, this includes smarting off and being a general pain in the ass. Would you shoot off your mouth at a guy with a gun who wasn’t wearing a police uniform? See ya at the coroners office, you conscientiously objecting freedom fighter!

I’d like to see him try his act in Mexico.

Speaking of Martin Short, Jiminy Glick is one of the funniest characters of all time.

That is all.

I have no idea if we have a voter fraud problem. There’s no reliable data on which to base a claim either way. Saying “we’ve never caught anybody, therefore there exists no problem” gives me a headache in my eye.

Actually, the last one I had with a floppy was an IBM Thinkpad. I’ve never bought a Mac with one. Come to think of it, the floppy for that IBM might be in the garage, but it’s a false lead, since it won’t plug into anything but the IBM it came with. It’s not like it was USB.

I refuse to believe anyone is this medieval in their beliefs.

“It’s right in line with all the other bullsh** going on now in the Legislature,” Holland said. “And you can quote me on that in capital letters if you want to. Cutting education, cutting healthcare, going after immigrants, all the things the Rebublican majority seems interested in, that don’t do anything to enhance the quality of life and the economic foundation of the average Mississippian. It’s a spamelot bill. I thought it made about as much sense as some of the other stuff coming through here. We’ll see what happens.”

Whole piece is here:

http://msbusiness.com/magnoliamarketplace/2012/02/09/holland-gulf-of-america-bill-filed-to-protest-gop-agenda/

What is clear is that it’s hilarious that I had to manually approve a comment by YOU, of all people. Heh.

RTR

Sally adds that you might want to check out Codex Alera after all, despite your misgivings. It’s more traditional high fantasy yes, but Sally, Jamie, and John all love it, and Sally usually is not a high fantasy fan. The quality among those books seems, according to them, to be generally higher than in Dresden. Plus they’re cheapo paperbacks (of course, you may be reading all your books via iPad now).

oh, and look, I can comment now. I’m sure you have missed my drolleries. And, by the way, ROLL EFFING TIDE.