After some nice weather and some outdoors activites in March, we seem to have settled into a cold spell around here. And frankly, it’s dragging on me a bit. I’m not quite ready for baseball season to start (yes, I know it has for the bigs, but that doesn’t really matter much to me), but I sure would like a few nice days that would entice me out into the yard. Or the garage even. There’s cleanup to be done out there, but I haven’t had a nice enough day to open the windows on the house this year, so it just doesn’t feel right to start outdoor cleaning yet.
That said, I’m getting the feeling that things are going to start rolling along Real Soon Now. The season ticket pickup party for the Saints is two weeks out. And then there’s a Saints game down in Miesville just two weeks after that, and then things will be busy. It’s just this in-between time that’s tough. I suppose I’ll start consoling myself with MLB games on the idiot-box, but I just can’t get excited about watching steroid-enhanced-millionaires who might not even have made the majors if it weren’t for “the juice.”
- My friend Ingrid linked to … but the devil sends the cooks and it got me thinking that I haven’t been cooking enough lately. It’s the time of year that falls in between the making of soups and stocks, and time to bust out the grill. As I mentioned above, it’s dragging on my a little, but soon the weather will improve and I’ll be cooking outdoors again. I’m looking forward to it. Oh, and it’s a pretty good food-blog, too.
- A lawsuit alleges that Minneapolis cops planted [a] pistol on teen after they gunned him down. What’s clear is that the kid got hit by a cop car while riding his bike, then chased, and had nine rounds shot at him. And then he was found with a gun that he’d supposedly been holding that had no fingerprints or DNA evidence on it. Whether the gun was a .380 or a 7.65 isn’t clear, but one of them was supposed to be in the police evidence locker. Take a look at the video and see what you think. Maybe he should have simply submitted rather than running away after being knocked off his bike by a patrol car, but that’s a decision I wouldn’t want to have to make.
- I’ve heard The Myth of 90 Percent: Only a Small Fraction of Guns in Mexico Come From U.S..
The predominant source of guns in Mexico is Central and South America. You also have Russian, Chinese and Israeli guns. It’s estimated that over 100,000 soldiers deserted the army to work for the drug cartels, and that ignores all the police. How many of them took their weapons with them?
The problem isn’t the U.S. Most of the guns people are freaking out about aren’t even available for purchase in the U.S. [vinnie] - This week saw the (re?) launch of LIFE with
More than 7 million photos from the Life and Getty Images photo collections are now available to consumers in the largest online photography site.
Worth a look, but budget some time for your visit. [top]