MSU Professors Link Hunting With Sexual Violence

Three female Michigan State University professors studied the magazine "Traditional Bowhunter," and concluded that hunting is a form of sexual violence with animals substituted for women. They describe hunting as, "erotic heterosexual predation, sadomasochism, restraint for aggressive sexual energy, and allied with the abuse of women."

Whatever.

[Via Rush Limbaugh]

UPDATE: The complete "scholarly" work is posted here.

Escapes Add to Concerns for Sheriff

The number of inmates escaping from Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department custody has doubled over the last two years, and prosecutors are alarmed that sheriff's officials have no formal policy to notify them when an inmate gets away.

Concerns for the sheriff? What about concerns for those of us he insists on keeping disarmed--after failing his public trust to keep criminals in his custody?

The Judas Goat

But the cruel wretch said, "Then I will eat all Noman's comrades before Noman himself, and will keep Noman for the last. This is the present that I will make him."
--From "The Odyssey" by Homer [Translated by Samuel Butler]

Goat meat is making inroads with American consumers. The following excerpt from an LA Times story struck me as particularly relevant in regards to those trading in our liberty for perceived security:

Sbeta, a native of Libya, gets help from Poncho the Goat, a loyal ram who several times a day leads a small group of kid goats through a narrow alley to the slaughterhouse door. Poncho leaves the animals inside and trots back to a cozy corral while a worker slits the throats of his former charges. Their skinned carcasses are then placed in cold storage.

I can forgive Poncho the Judas goat. After all, he is merely a dumb animal, oblivious to cause and effect, and oblivious that one day, Sbeta, like the cyclops Polyphemus, will come for him, too.

What I can't forgive are the human Judas goats who are selling out our birthright, determined to leave those they lead as helpless as goats in the slaughterhouse. I don't want them trotting back to a cozy corral. I don't want them to be eaten last.

A Peace Message From Stanley "Tookie" Williams

To disarm is the ultimate gesture of peace and a true moment of reckoning. [More]

Tookie, co-founder of the Crips, is on death row awaiting a December "moment of reckoning" for the brutal shotgun executions of four people he was robbing. Ironic--now that it's his turn, he doesn't want to die.

A Defense Gone Bad

The man who was critically wounded during Sunday's shooting rampage at Tacoma Mall drew a pistol and confronted the gunman before he was cut down by gunfire, his family said Tuesday.

We don't know the details, so this is mere speculation--but expect opponents of self-defense to point to this, and trumpet how having a gun didn't save Brendan McKown.

Possibly he just didn't have time to draw, aim and fire. Possibly he didn't have time to seek cover before doing so. Possibly, since not too many people are really trained for this sort of encounter, he froze for a critical few seconds.

With the benefit of hindsight, and in the comfort of my armchair, let me offer the following: If you feel justified drawing on a suspect, don't "confront" him. Shoot him. Again and again and again.