bric a brac

I don't care too much about concealed carry.  Well I think people who are packing heat are a bit off, but the street corner shootouts I expected don't seem to be happening.  Nothing much has happened.  Crime hasn't gone down because the miscreants fear their well-armed neighbors, nor are the well-armed neighbors blasting each other over petty disputes. 

It would be nice to do something to keep guns out of the hands or our local gangbangers.  They shoot each other and innocent bystanders at appalling rates, and then there are those toddlers playing with their uncle's gun.  The city and the state try to regulate gun sales but the stores in Indiana are selling them like hotcakes, so it would have to be some federal thing, which will never happen.

Has anybody noticed that there has never been an urban school massacre, just suburban and rural?  Who knows what to make of that.

I don't know where Beagles is getting those numbers.  Here is my certificate and Old Dog is just a bit northwest of me.  Where is Beagles' red dot?

I'm sure Old Dog has seen those Youtubes of artists painting in fast motion, this was just my version of that.  By the way my watercolor class has a show up there now. Perhaps on one of the warmer days that are surely ahead of us he could drop by for a seminar.  It has been awhile.

I don't see us confiscating autos and semi-autos, but if we ban them the resulting supply will slowly dwindle and they will be harder to get.

How do we use pigeons as biometers?  And why bother, don't we have plenty of great apes with humongous brains to test?  You wonder if pigeons roosting on some tall office building wish they were on some windswept cliff in a green wilderness.  Maybe for a spell, but then they spot that squashed Twinkie on the sidewalk far below and they are swooping down thinking the city is the place for me!

Couldn't agree more with Galileo, kind of strange to think of finding it in a Disney cartoon.  Anymore aren't they all about princesses?  But you know it was a great moment forward when somebody thought, let's order the letters, a then b then c... (Any old order would do just as well, I wonder how we got the current order) and then order all the a's by their second letter, and then the third and so on.  Couldn't have a dictionary without that because you would never be able to find a word and would never know when one was left out. 

On the other hand the Chinese with their writing system don't have an alphabet, worse, they have several, and they seem to be doing alright.