Links, Rotary Picnic Edition
My Rotary club is having a picnic instead of a meeting today, [insert missing logic here] so have some links.
A) Found via View From the Porch, cogent thoughts on the spate of TV survival shows. Money quote: In the end, regardless of what you think you might have learned via osmosis from TV, if you haven’t actually built a shelter from scratch, gathered wild food, butchered a critter, and drunk water you sanitized yourself, you haven’t yet graduated survival kindergarten.
B) Pretty pictures! 10 Beautiful Places That Actually Exist.
C) The world's oceans can be an unlawful place: murder caught on video but not prosecuted.
D) Presented without endorsement: states with tough gun laws have fewer gun murders. My state, Illinois, is (despite Chicago) below the national average.
A) Found via View From the Porch, cogent thoughts on the spate of TV survival shows. Money quote: In the end, regardless of what you think you might have learned via osmosis from TV, if you haven’t actually built a shelter from scratch, gathered wild food, butchered a critter, and drunk water you sanitized yourself, you haven’t yet graduated survival kindergarten.
B) Pretty pictures! 10 Beautiful Places That Actually Exist.
C) The world's oceans can be an unlawful place: murder caught on video but not prosecuted.
D) Presented without endorsement: states with tough gun laws have fewer gun murders. My state, Illinois, is (despite Chicago) below the national average.