Larry Correia hits it out of the park again.

[agilebrit]

I'ma just leave this here: The Legalities of Shooting People.

ETA: Okay, I realize that everyone is having a blast smacking Clamps around like a cheap pinata, but I'm going to bow out at this point in time. I have a Sunday deadline I'm desperately trying to hit on a story that's making me crazy

Comments

[yamamanama]

How about "people who clearly have a problem with race should be banned from law enforcement or military and forbidden from owning any weapon that can penetrate bone."

[agilebrit]

How about "don't be a dumbass, rob a liquor store, try to take a cop's gun away, charge him like a linebacker, and be surprised when he shoots you."

Though in your scenario, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would be forbidden from carrying guns as well, so I guess we could take the good with the bad.

[yamamanama]

I'm not quite convinced that it happened that way.

[agilebrit]

Well, I don't give a shit, honestly, what you're convinced by, because the evidence the grand jury saw trumps your "conviction."

[cutelildrow]

@Julie;

Thank you for letting me visit, and no worries - hope at the very least this entertained! Good luck on the deadline.

[agilebrit]

You are more than welcome, and I'm vastly entertained.

And I'm pretty sure I'm going to hit my deadline, as I finally figured out what this crazy thing is actually about and have been able to integrate that into what I already had.

Writing is hard, yo. Even with an outline, it don't ever go smooth. I'm to the point where, if it does go smooth? I'm clearly doing something wrong.

[cutelildrow]

Yeah, it IS pretty entertaining to watch him throw a temper tantrum going essentially "I WENT TO LENGTHS TO STEAL YOUR ART SO I COULD HAVE OTHER PEOPLE MAKE FUN OF IT AND YOU WERE NEVER SUPPOSED TO FIND OUT! WAAAH YOU ARE STALKING MEEEE NOBODY IS ALLOWED TO STALK ANYONE ELSE BUT MEEEEE!"

[fierynotes]

Wow. I step away from LJ for a while (posting only to brag about the new toys I got for music, with implications that I plan on doing some great shit with them), and look at what I miss!

And having poked my head in this thread, I'm retreating. If I stick a foot in, I'll get my foot stuck like in the Tar Baby... except the tar is white, and "Wank Baby" is a million more kinds of wrong than I care to perpetrate here. Besides, unlike Manamana ("Do do, do-do-do!"), I am facing my imperfections as an artist (a musician, in this case), because I plan to be amazing one of these days, and that means working at my craft. But then, you're likely not reading this because you're hard at work at your craft as well. We understand each other, even if we're frequently in disagreement politically.

[agilebrit]

Unfortunately, any thread with that guy quickly devolves into his own failings as both a human being and an artist. You might guess there's some history between all of those of us commenting up there.

I'm checking in between errands and revisions, and I at least finally have a draft that both I and the beta who got a copy of the terrible one and the one I like can live with. Now to hone it until it sparkles. We do, indeed, understand each other. :)

[mauser]

The whole page is getting slower and slower to respond. I think soon we might break LJ. :-)

[jordan179]

There are over 50 levels of nesting in some places here. Do you know how long a mathematical description of just the relationships between the posts and comments would take written out on paper?

[tlknighton]

BTW, I thought I'd offer up my own thoughts on Ferguson.

http://tlknighton.com/?p=6850