A lot of real life interfered with the weekend's link hunting. I hope you readers enjoyed the weekend too. My weekend included some fun and one awful, boring chore that I'd been putting off because I knew it was going to take hours, and it did; but it's always enjoyable when that sort of chore is done.
Books
John Woodhouse's Bible commentary, 2 Kings, sounds like something I wish I had received in the e-mail. The history of ancient Israel has a lot to say to contemporary political thought.
Chlorpyrifos Awareness
This web site is supposed to be about Glyphosate Awareness...but it's useful to know:
Clothing
What the politically incorrect and proud will be wearing. It looks like ordinary menswear, to me, but it shows support for freedom of speech.
Music
Dave Edmunds.
Lucy Thomas takes a whack at a Fleetwood Mac song.
C&C Music Factory.
The late Justin Townes Earle.
Danny Gatton.
The Nighthawks.
Powerhouse.
Boogie Belgique.
"Walter Roesner and the Capitolians."
Amos Garrett.
Maria Muldaur.
Politics (British Snark)
I don't think people should ask questions when someone thinks she needs an abortion. I think the decision, and the surgery, are so gruesome that very little can usefully be said. That doesn't mean I don't think the women making the decision should think long and think hard. Because the surgery is gruesome, is considered successful when it only harms women instead of killing them, I think most women would be better off giving birth to healthy adoptable babies, if nature has made that choice available. But influences on their choices are personal, and not subject to public debate. Someone in cyberspace was asking whether people would abort, or advise others to abort, a viable fetus if they knew it was going to have Downs Syndrome. I would be tempted, myself. I would know the temptation was coming from my own disability and the decision to abort the fetus was poor-spirited, but I would be tempted. I am the one who felt judged and found wanting in the face of my cat's devotion to a defective kitten. So I'm not going to judge anyone else who wants to jump off the pregnancy carousel at any point or for any reason.
That said, this British writer makes some good points. I think the skill of riding to hounds is worth preserving, and "trail hunting," in which hounds, horses, and humans practice fox hunting skills without chasing an actual fox, should probably be brought to the US.
Riots
The position of this web site is that nonviolent approaches to problems are generally best. However, if someone is stupid enough to try to cut off an Irishman's head in Ireland, there is no need to look for causes of what follows. The stupid man can fairly be described as having died of stupidity. And if the same could invariably be said for other countries and other violent crimes, this would be a better world.
Governments should act to prevent rioting and vigilante justice by removing violent people from the streets. If they are subjects of other countries, governments may be able to afford the courtesy of sending such people back where they came from--once; I don't think they should bother doing that twice. I favor life imprisonment on condition that no taxpayer be asked to supply violent criminals with food or water. The concern is not with saving whatever a violent man has in the way of a soul, but with protecting decent people from violence.
Someone put on the Mirror a bit of fake news, not worth copying or linking, clearly intended as a joke, about a homicidal maniac who robbed a store and, on the way out, started a fight with some US Marines on leave from a nearby base. One of the Marines was treated for a stab wound and is doing well. The homicidal maniac was treated for broken bones, including both arms and legs and several ribs, incurred when he fell into the gutter after stabbing the Marine.
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