Fool's Wisdom

Okay, so: about five months ago, according to the Tumblr timestamp — which, of course, was not...

Sun, 12 May 2013 09:50:00 -0400

Okay, so: about five months ago, according to the Tumblr timestamp — which, of course, was not long after the Sandy Hook massacre — I reblogged something that ended up on my followers-list (at least, I think it did; I honestly don’t remember). It was a three or four picture gifset of an articulate young black man advocating for the right of people to bear arms, I think for personal protection. Anyway, my temper was running high — I was still getting pretty emotional in the wake of Sandy Hook and other, similar disasters — and I dashed off a terse response. Anyway, it looks like the OP saw this, and I didn’t know anything about it (this being back when Tumblr noted such things but you had to dig really hard to notice them.)

And because I was egotistically googling my blog’s name tonight, it popped up. And the thing is, I am emotionally affected enough by this five month old post that I’m gonna respond, even though the original pictures seem to have disappeared at some point.

eltigrechico:

onionhighonionandrenownreblogged your photoset:spread far and wide

It is the law. And as long as you obey the law, I can do nothing about your owning a dangerous weapon. But I don’t believe it should be the law.

Okay, then don’t own one. That’s the whole point.

Well, I don’t, of course. But I also think gun ownership should be restricted. Very, very restricted. I mean, this is the heart of our disagreement here.

You do not need a gun.

You don’t know that at all. There are plenty of people who do need guns for personal protection. That’s really not your decision to make.

Actually… no. I don’t believe people DO need guns for “personal protection.” That is nonsense. I’ve lived in Australia (personal history note: I’m an American, I grew up in America, I lived there until I was twenty-eight, then moved to Australia because my wife’s from here) for years now, and Aussie gun-control laws are stringent as hell; trust me, if you were to tell an Australian man that he cannot protect himself without a gun, he will laugh in your face.

And, should my side of the argument prevail (pretty much an impossibilty, given the way things are in the U.S.), you won’t have one.

How hilariously absurd that in your perfect world you would want to use guns to keep peaceful people from owning guns.

….wow. I honestly don’t know if that’s an intentional misreading of what I wrote, or that I was guilty of communicating really, really badly. I’m going to guess it’s the latter.

In my “perfect world,” eltigrechico:, I would never use guns to prevent people from doing anything. I actually hate guns, and I hate that they’re necessary at all. I certainly wasn’t threatening… what? An armed campaign against all people who’d want to own a gun? Is that what you thought I meant?

Honestly, if I were the Emperor of the United States (I am not related to the Emperor Norton, but I understand he was a really great emperor), gun control laws would break down like this:

Are you a police officer, member of the U.S. armed forces, or licensed/bonded security guard?
Are you a rural American with a legitimate need for, let’s say, a shotgun or rifle to protect your livestock from predators or your crops from being eaten?
Are you a target-shooting enthusiast who wants a very specific kind of gun?

Wonderful! Then you may have a gun! Everyone else can bloody well get by without a mechanical death-dealing aid.

(The irony of all this is, of course, that I love fencing and have noodled with swords and other bladed weapons for over two decades now. If we were having this conversation about swords, daggers, axes, and so forth I imagine we wouldn’t be arguing at all.

womenwhokickass: Shoni and Jude Schimmel: Why they kick...

Sun, 12 May 2013 09:30:51 -0400

womenwhokickass:

Shoni and Jude Schimmel: Why they kick ass

Shoni and Jude Schimmel are are indispensable members for The Louisville Cardinal women’s basketball team, and are also tribal members of the Confederated Tribe of Umatilla Indians. They are also the only American Indians to ever play in a NCAA Division 1 basketball title game.

When she was a junior in high school, Shoni was the subject of a documentary entitled Off the Rez, as she attempted to become the first from her reservation to gain an athletic scholarship. she succeeded, and her sister followed in her footsteps, even winning the Elite 89 award earlier in the tournament, a distinction given to the top student-athlete participating at each NCAA championship site.

They’ve become inspirations to thousands around the country, while only three years ago Shoni and Jude were budding superstars at Franklin High School in Southeast Portland; two teenagers with flash and flair who left the reservation and talked about setting a positive example for young Natives.

Shoni and Jude commanded attention throughout the tournament, leading Louisville to a shocking win over No. 1 Baylor, considered the biggest upset in tournament history. ESPN showed pictures of a young Shoni and Jude in full tribal wear, as fans across the country became familiar with their backstory.

The fifth-seeded Cardinals were the lowest seed in history to play in a title game and with most of their players back, they will be a Top 5 team next season. “Without a doubt, this is going down as one of the greatest runs in women’s basketball,”

They’re from my home state. They’re actually from the part of it where I went to college. I’m damned proud of that — and every Oregonian should be proud of them.

Ygritte. Seriously, Jon, if you’d pulled your head out of...

Sun, 12 May 2013 09:29:30 -0400

Ygritte.

Seriously, Jon, if you’d pulled your head out of your ass for ten minutes together during that section of the book….

Iron Man armour → Iron Man 2 ↳ War Machine My blog really...

Sun, 12 May 2013 09:28:23 -0400

Iron Man armour → Iron Man 2
↳ War Machine

My blog really needs more Rhodey love. Given that one of my favorite scenes from when I was first getting into comics features him, I should reblog more Rhodey. Plus, MCU War Machine looks AWESOME.

(I will never be able to think of him as the Iron Patriot, because — I think I’m actually the only actual Norman-Osborn-as-the-Iron-Patriot fan, but dammit, here I am.)

kezcake: theblackship: its-a-duckpond: lesserkeystudios: jeth...

Sun, 12 May 2013 09:23:46 -0400

kezcake:

theblackship:

its-a-duckpond:

lesserkeystudios:

jethroq:

killsmedead:

fullofwhoa:

killsmedead:

froggyphevoli:

thestarkidpaige:

newly-poly-nyc:

ilovecharts:

A pie chart of Voldemort’s soul, assuming that every time he made a horcrux his soul was split precisely in half.

Numbers are rounded down.

-returningtodust

…Harry had more of Voldemort’s soul in him than Voldemort himself had.

Whoa. That’s crazy.

This is super cool! Props to whoever made it!

I read “Diary” as “Dairy” and pictured him filled with cheese curds.

Relevant to my interests.

EDIT: Also, *damn*, Ginny basically got the worst Horcrux. She had way more of Voldemort in her than Harry ever did.

Reblogging for that edit because… I never considered that.

Which probably also explains why the diary was so powerfull and had so much of his personality.

I always believed that the Diary should have affected Ginny much MORE in the long run than it did. This chart just proves it.

I’m sorry I all I saw was “Ginny had more of Voldemort in her than Harry ever did”

fishscalepanties: darkrobins: on one hand i want a nightwing movie, but on the other hand i know...

Sun, 12 May 2013 09:23:09 -0400

fishscalepanties:

darkrobins:

on one hand i want a nightwing movie, but on the other hand i know they’d totally prob fuck him up and try to make him ~gritty~ like batman

i think id just really like them to start with a super gritty voice over and the actor portraying dick grayson doing the gargling-marbles christopher nolan batman voice

then just have him choke and cough and be like “how does he do that for more than fifteen minutes a night, jesus christ-“

begin nightwing movie~

I would literally do a jig should that happen.

Gentle Mother, font of mercy… Happy Mother’s Day!

Sun, 12 May 2013 09:22:42 -0400

Gentle Mother, font of mercy…

~~Happy~~ Mother’s Day!

gifdistrict: The most effective fencing strategy. As a huge...

Sun, 12 May 2013 09:17:13 -0400

gifdistrict:

The most effective fencing strategy.

As a huge fan of fencing, I find this HILARIOUS.

validesign: DO A VINE DO A VINE Loras. LORAS. Wh–WHAT ARE YOU...

Sun, 12 May 2013 09:16:38 -0400

validesign:

DO A VINE DO A VINE

Loras. LORAS. Wh–WHAT ARE YOU DOING. YOU ARE A KNIGHT OF THE KINGSGUARD, LORAS. STOP THAT BOOTY WAGGLE.

I would love to have Nikolaj Coster-Waldau enter frame at that moment and drag him off. “Dammit, kid….”

randomredux: buckybird: thedailysuperhero: Chad Coleman (The...

Sun, 12 May 2013 09:15:10 -0400

randomredux:

buckybird:

thedailysuperhero:

Chad Coleman (The Walking Dead) said he is very interested in being Luke Cage. Thoughts?

” I want to play Luke Cage so I’ll put it out there right now, ‘I want to play Luke Cage.’ So I’m going to be working on trying to develop that. [Walking Dead EP] Gale Anne Hurd, I know you’re listening, I’ll see you in Atlanta, I know we haven’t talked about this yet [laughs] but I would love to play Luke Cage.”

Now that would be cool.

I always feel guilty when people demand to know where the Black Panther movie is, because I’ve always been so utterly and completely bored by T’challa (he’s so upright and honest and GOOD; I already have Captain America for that, which is not to say that I don’t totally understand and agree with the point people are making when they demand to know where the BP movie is), but —

LUKE CAGE MOVIE. Right now, please.

lickypickystickyme: If grandmothers around the world had a...

Thu, 09 May 2013 06:27:00 -0400

lickypickystickyme:

If grandmothers around the world had a rallying cry, it would probably sound something like “You need to eat!”

Photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s grandmother said something similar to him before one of his many globetrotting work trips. To ensure he had at least one good meal, she prepared for him a dish of ravioli before he departed on one of his adventures.

“In that occasion I said to my grandma ‘You know, Grandma, there are many other grandmas around the world and most of them are really good cooks,” Galimberti wrote via email. “I’m going to meet them and ask them to cook for me so I can show you that you don’t have to be worried for me and the food that I will eat!’ This is the way my project was born!”

The project, “Delicatessen With Love”, took Galimberti to 58 countries where he photographed grandmothers with both the ingredients and finished signature dishes.

He acted as photographer and stylist during each shoot with the grandmothers, taking a portrait of both the women and the food they made for him.

From top to bottom:

Inara Runtule, 68, Kekava, Latvia. Silke (herring with potatoes and cottage cheese).

Grace Estibero, 82, Mumbai, India. Chicken vindaloo.

Susann Soresen, 81, Homer, Alaska. Moose steak.

Serette Charles, 63, Saint-Jean du Sud, Haiti. Lambi in creole sauce.

The photographer’s grandmother Marisa Batini, 80, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. Swiss chard and ricotta Ravioli with meat sauce.

Normita Sambu Arap, 65, Oltepessi (Masaai Mara), Kenya. Mboga and orgali (white corn polenta with vegetables and goat).

Julia Enaigua, 71, La Paz, Bolivia. Queso Humacha (vegetables and fresh cheese soup).

Fifi Makhmer, 62, Cairo, Egypt. Kuoshry (pasta, rice and legumes pie).

Isolina Perez De Vargas, 83, Mendoza, Argentina. Asado criollo (mixed meats barbecue).

Bisrat Melake, 60, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Enjera with curry and vegetables.

These all look so delicious. I fear I must have them. NOW. (If there was a place in Brisbane that would deliver me chicken vindaloo or lambi in creole sauce at this hour, I might actually hand over the firstborn.)

heidi8: starkexpos: acidgreensheep: He’s just not that kind...

Thu, 09 May 2013 06:02:38 -0400

heidi8:

starkexpos:

acidgreensheep:

He’s just not that kind of doctor. ;)

~~this might be my favorite thing~~

Perfect crossover is perfect.

marvelandia: alphalewolf: Chris Evans was cast as both The...

Thu, 09 May 2013 06:01:44 -0400

marvelandia:

alphalewolf:

Chris Evans was cast as both The Human Torch and Captain America because of reasons.

I have heard — I have no idea if this is actually true, because I can’t find the cite for it, but the story I heard was that Jessica Alba ruined take after take while filming the first Fantastic Four movie because she could not take her eyes off the way Chris Evans filled out that suit.

Even if that’s not true, it ought to be.

phoenix: smallglassworlds: Classic Who Ladies Are...

Thu, 09 May 2013 05:59:05 -0400

phoenix:

smallglassworlds:

Classic Who Ladies Are Awesome → Ace

Also, since people have often asked me who my favorite companion is, this would be her, followed by Donna Noble.

Ace may or may not be responsible for why I like people who like blowing things up.

1. Ace is awesome, and I will never hear a word said against her.

2. I want her there for the Fiftieth more even than Nine. I want Eleven to be walking round on some far-off alien world, hear a huge explosion, go running towards it, and then Ace comes strolling out’ve the smoke.

“H’lo, Professor.”

I would actually dance down the street if that happened. No BS.

The hero of Canton, the man they call Jayne.

Thu, 09 May 2013 05:48:03 -0400

The hero of Canton, the man they call Jayne.

So I was just wondering...

Thu, 09 May 2013 05:42:48 -0400

wondygirl:

signaturesakura:

and maybe this is a stupid thought, but why do the teenage mutant ninja turtles wear masks. What are they trying to hide? It’s not like they have real lives as mutant turtles with jobs when they aren’t saving the city. So who are they disguising their identities from? It’s not like all ninjas wear masks either so just where did it come from?

They tell you in the Turtle Mirage comic but I forgot what the exact reason was, I think it was what Ninjas wore in those comics for stealth reasons but I forgot.

The cartoon reason was so kids could tell them apart, in the comics they all had the same color headband (red) so it was for aesthetic reasons because otherwise they would just look like regular mutant turtles with weapons.

Plus they are heavily influenced by super hero mythos (and a lot of superheroes tend to wear masks) particularly X-Men and Daredevil, especially Frank Miller’s Daredevil, which makes me think they probably were inspired by her

Hell just look at Raph, it’s like he raided her wardrobe.

I actually know the answer to this one! The TMNTs are heavily based on red-eared slider turtles; they’re revealed to actually be red-eared sliders in volume two of the comic. The masks actually make more sense when you (a) remember that originally all the masks were red, and (b) look at a picture of a red-eared slider:

So there you go.

unhistorical: May 7, 1915: A German U-boat sinks the...

Tue, 07 May 2013 18:46:29 -0400

unhistorical:

May 7, 1915: A German U-boat sinks the RMS Lusitania.

The sinking of the British ocean liner Lusitania was one of the most infamous events of World War I, carried out by the SM U-20 as part of Germany’s policy of unrestricted submarine warfare against Great Britain and its allies. The event, which took the lives of nearly 1,200 people (including 128 American citizens), enraged the British and Americans, provided the basis for effective war and recruitment propaganda in the future, and turned public opinion in the United States against Germany so quickly that the country’s carefully preserved neutrality threatened to collapse. It did not, at least not until 1917, when Germany declared its intention to resume its practice of unrestricted submarine warfare, which reignited Americans’ lingering anger over the Lusitania.

At the time of its sinking, the Lusitania had officially been carrying as cargo war materials (ammunition, fuses, artillery shells), making it, in the eyes of the Germans, a legitimate military target, despite the fact that the ship was also at the time carrying 1,959 people. Of that number, 1,198 died when the ship was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland. The ship sank in 18 minutes, as opposed to the 2 hours 40 minutes it took for Lusitania’s White Star Line Rival, RMS Titanic, to sink, but like with Titanic, most of the deaths probably resulted from hypothermia, as survivors of the initial torpedoing awaited rescue floating for hours in the waters of the North Atlantic. In addition, the manner in which the Lusitania sank rendered most of its lifeboats unusable. The commander of the German U-boat, Walther Schwieger, was labeled by some a war criminal, although despite sparking outrage in the United States, the attack was not on its own enough to bring the country into the war. Three days later President Wilson made this comment in a speech:

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

doktorvondoom: Cyclops by ~iliaskrzs

Tue, 07 May 2013 18:45:35 -0400

doktorvondoom:

Cyclops by ~iliaskrzs

floozys: “boys will be bo-“ flies in punches you in the face bOYS WILL BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR...

Tue, 07 May 2013 18:45:11 -0400

floozys:

“boys will be bo-“

*flies in*

*punches you in the face*

bOYS WILL BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS LIKE EVERYONE ELSE

zombieapocalypseteam: calmtempest: logicallunacy: Steampunk...

Tue, 07 May 2013 18:44:29 -0400

zombieapocalypseteam:

calmtempest:

logicallunacy:

Steampunk Corsets from Corset-Story.com.

I’ll never fit in one but I want one

^same, i waaaaant one.

Ahem. I don’t want one, as I identify male and would feel silly, but I want my sweetie elidyce to have them all.