We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern. – Walter Lippman
Though I could always hope for more, I’m fairly satisfied with the number of appropriate items in this last link column before Halloween. This week’s link champ is Ken White of Popehat; actually he and Radley Balko are tied with five links each, but since one of Ken’s is something he wrote himself I’m going to consider that a tiebreaker. All the links down to the new Amy Winfrey cartoon are Ken’s, and all the links after the second video are Radley’s; that one reframes one of the scariest movies of all time as an ’80s sitcom. The first few links after the first video were provided by Rachel Bloom, Ms. Samantha, Chi Mgbako, Franklin Harris, Cthulhuchick and Mike Siegel (in that order), and the last two before the second video by Jesse Walker.
- Six scientists convicted of manslaughter for failing to predict earthquake.
- Christian guns, soul murder and perverted factories of unfaithfulness.
- A seasonally-appropriate response to blog-ad spammers.
- Smartass whale mocks human speech.
- Offense 101.
- “Studies have shown that if you pray for at least 20 minutes before any big date, your partner is 93% less likely to rape you.”
- Why the guy who runs a site with goblin porn still imposes arbitrary and contextually-nonsensical limits.
- A nasty little chapter of history with which you were probably unfamiliar.
- John Carpenter’s parody of “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”.
- Don’t just shorten your url; make it suspicious and frightening!
- Moron mistakes little girl in skunk costume for actual skunk.
- Why is it that so many truly amazing artists are Dutch?
- New York City cop planned to abduct, rape and eat 100 women.
- If Proposition 35 were law, a lot of these students would face decades in prison & lifetime “sex offender” registration.
- Remember how we used to be told that one of the reasons communist countries were evil was that people weren’t allowed to emigrate?
- The newest weapon available to cops allows them to steal data from every cell phone in its operational radius without anyone even knowing.
- A D&D player might think this was a lot more serious than it really was.
- Welcome to our world, galaxies.
- The Law of Unintended Consequences, texting edition.
- Cop murders puppy for playing happily with another dog.
- This week’s edition of “Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.”
- Three Florida cops try to frame an innocent man for DUI to cover up an accident one of them caused by running a red light.
- Los Angeles says cop was “justified” in mowing down an unarmed non-criminal with a machine gun in order to “prevent [his] escape”.
