And the Larry Hincker Award Goes to...

Larry Hincker!

"We're disappointed and frankly not happy, and we expect to get some assurances that this won't happen again," Tech spokesman Larry Hincker said.

What, your stupid, expensive after-the-fact alert system failing, or prohibiting an immediate active response?

And who says utter failure doesn't pay?

Charles W. Steger, president of Virginia Tech, was paid nearly $720,000 during the same period...

I wonder if Larry got to lick the plate?

"You'd think they'd have a backup for this kind of thing," Hincker said.

That is supposed to be the backup, you dolt.

I am honestly starting to think that he is this dense.

Regardless, one small satisfaction--for some time now, and hopefully for a good long time, I'll always be right there looking over his shoulder...

[Via Mack H]

Larry Hincker Award design courtesy of Robb Allen

Larry Hincker Award Finalists

CCAC also told Brashier that the college must pre-approve any distribution of literature to fellow students, and that pamphlets like hers would not be approved, even insisting that Brashier destroy all copies of her pamphlet.

Brashier reports that she was also interrogated about why she was distributing the pamphlets, whether she owned a licensed firearm and had ever brought it to campus (she has not), whether she carries a concealed firearm off campus, and whether she disagrees with the existing college policy banning concealed weapons on campus. [More]

Why do fun opportunities like this always seem to happen to someone else...?

Oh, look:

Alex Johnson, President, Community College of Allegheny County: 412-237-4413; ajohnson@ccac.edu
Elmer Haymon, President, Community College of Allegheny County-Allegheny Campus: 412-237-2543; ehaymon@ccac.edu

We can still have some fun.

Frickin' nitwits.

[Via Sam W and "Bill Hicks". Hincker Award courtesy Robb Allen].

The Larry Hincker Award

We talked about it yesterday (actually, I talked about it before that).

Robb Allen came up with a great design.


I opted for a plaque because I'm too unskilled to work with shapes. Honest, we both selected the same silhouette source independently.


I like Robb's as he actually knows what he's doing with a graphics program. But I also like the text on mine, so perhaps something could be arranged...?

Now I'll put together a nominating process, the rules loosely being someone who creates or encourages a "Gun Free Zone" and people end up getting killed.

Off the top of my head I can come up with:

The award's namesake.

The proprietors of Trolley Square.

The proprietors of Westroads Mall.

Chancellor O'Keefe.

Maybe this guy?

Send in your nominations, along with a brief summary and link to show what they did to qualify and I'll finalize the list and put up a poll where we can vote on the 2007 recipient.

We Don't Cotton to Your Kind Around Here

“We will fight tooth and nail if any school, whether it is a neighborhood school or a charter school, that decides to arm its teachers. "If it’s a charter school, we are going to ask that they leave the Douglas County School District," Dr. Thomas Tucker said during the hearing. [More]

"Dr." of what? How to be a douche?

Can you just picture how useless future Larry Hincker Award recipient Tom'd be in a situation where the only hope to stop an attacker would be an armed response? The first thing that comes to mind is a quivering butt sticking out from under a desk...

[Via cydl]

No Breakthrough

No breakthrough has been reported so far in the brutal execution-style murder of two Indian doctoral scholars at the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, even as authorities announced on Friday that they were looking for three young males who appeared to be making a getaway from the double homicide scene.

How progressive of him, that while these animals are still out there running loose, Chancellor O'Keefe is making damn sure they'll be offered every advantage should they return.

I need to come up with a Larry Hincker Award trophy graphic. My rough idea is a cowering human figure atop a standard trophy base. This guy certainly deserves one.

And the Larry Hincker Award Goes To...

Former state police Superintendent W. Gerald Massengill said yesterday that he is willing to personally support restrictions on sales of firearms at gun shows.

Stepping into a volatile political issue that he said will take on a new urgency and tenor in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, Massengill described himself as a strong supporter of Second Amendment rights but as a man who has witnessed an intolerable rise in gun violence and gun presence.

"We can't allow the proliferation of guns to continue," he said, speaking before The Virginia Center for Public Safety, a nonprofit group that is part of a coalition of gun-control advocates.

What...?