I also had the guy with the ball bat already hitting the fellow with the gun; no running was possible and he may have even died later from injuries already inflicted by the ball bat wielding crazy. After all, in war all involved are losers when viewed correctly.

Yes, I've read the thread, and it makes very little sense to me. If you are proposing that the victim country in this scenario died from the initial assault/first strike, then you are thinking like a Pentagon general armed to the teeth with "snake" metaphors.

And generally the only time a gun works in close quarters (AFTER your ferocious bat-wielding enemy has gotten within bat range) is when both are struggling over the gun and one party gets lucky. There's a reason why shooting ranges don't have an area where you attempt to hit a target while struggling with it. Cops should be trained in it, though.

But thanks.

I never heard of matrimonialcide, but "matricide" is killing your mother. If you are a woman who married and divorced her daughter, then the term applies to you. Otherwise, it doesn't.

Do you see how the setting up of "scenarios" can be useful? Once you determine a scenario in which X is true, you then determine whether situation A meets the conditions of said situation.

It's almost as fun as writing movies. But you have to think a little bit, and most people don't like that.

...membership in the planet’s most despised class.

Black, republican, lesbian, muslim, pro choice, pro sex, global warming deniers?

Who are klan members and drive an SUV?

Who are also Dane Cook fans?

Thanks for showing your true colors. Like most of the big talkers on this blog (and the list is long and tedious), you choose to read carefully only when and how it suits you.

I made a specific point of indicating how rare would be the situation in which gun vs bat was justified. And I wholeheartedly agree with your later point that the real question is, what were you doing with a gun? I had set that one aside, of course, because there is a place called Texas. You may have heard of it.

Hi, I'm a Salon poster blowhard. I'm here to discuss what I want, when I want, and how I want, and damn the fine details of exactly what you said. What you said is what suits me for you to have said. Never mind if I spout nonsense and shit on everyone who interacts with me. It's my right.

I lack enough good sense that one time I decided to tell a joke to a few Irish fellas that actually entailed me attempting to imitate an Irish accent. (I forget the joke, it's beside the point anyway, so take yer pick - an Irishman, Eliot Spitzer, and Jesus go walking into a bar...)

Si there I am, attempting my best Irish Brogue, and Feargal, the bartender looks at me and says w/ a quizzical lilt -

"Was he an Irish PIRATE?"

Someone call William Timberman. The former guest here have left soiled underwear, silver wear, and unwashed false teeth on the motel towel rack.

I liked the quip: The sock has holes in it, so what!

This has been a day sipping a bowl of bad rice soup?

I mean: If the stew was cold and three weeks old, yuck.

I know some post have been great spoon-feeds for our mutual good entertainment...

But I'm a bit nauseated. If Glenn will apologize for abandoning us? boo huh. Mea culpa him! okay.

It was another day. We humans hopefully stand a little taller and wiser? A 'locus standi'... }!{

It is a Place to stand and view the magnificent grand world and a even greater mysterious universes.

It was a lot of stoking of the imagination and some good 'ole nostalgia. I'm not moaning and groaning. I bet Glenn is though... apologies. Wake him up. Scream yee-hah like cowpokes!

Yep, a 500cc liquid cooled V twin with shaft drive..

Honda only made it for one year, found they had too many models competing with their own lineup..

I just sold a 550 Nighthawk, inline air cooled four, six speed, shaft drive, same year.. One review said Honda couldn't decide whether to make a sportbike or a cruiser so made both.. A pretty apt description actually..

I'll send you an email later..

I hope no one is going to object to me conducting business on GG's blog, that wasn't my intention..

I must go, LWM needs me at another blog. After that, gotta go earn a living, such as it is. How I have enjoyed everyone's company!

Remember LWM rules!

I'm really interested in the 500 cc Honda Shadow.

Should get an easy 50-60 mpg. It's a narrow Vee, isn't it? Or was that Shadow a four?

The only thing wrong with scooters, really, is those small wheels. Every bump is that much bigger in proportion to your wheels. But you can't argue with 100mpg. And don't mess with LWM. I've seen what he can do at Orcinus. It's like a fight between a guy with a baseball bat and a guy with a gun.

The Spinster Aunt had a funeral to attend to, but finally weighed in on Spitzer:

I don’t know anything about “Kristen”, except that as a prostituted woman — however “high class” or “expensive” — she is a de facto sub-human. As are the millions of other, more invisible prostituted women she so inaccurately represents in the popular imagination. “Kristen” may achieve a kind of kitschy, pop-culture cachet because of the high status and celebrity of the asshole who used her as a meatsock, and she might be able to parlay her position as a footnote to history into some kind of financial reward — such things are not unheard of — but the vast majority of what so many progressives like to call “sex workers” subsist much, much more precariously. Some merely teeter on the precipice of indenture and some are genuinely enslaved, but all are subject to violence, disease, imprisonment, marginalization, shame, and all the other degradations, large and small, that accrue with membership in the planet’s most despised class.

http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/03/14/spinster-weighs-in-on-spitzer/

Twisty has a way with words.