tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post6542492072968087957..comments2023-04-22T12:32:24.799-07:00Comments on The House of Substance: The Golden Age of BarbaritySubstance McGravitashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04118764163822188800noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-24609188488700021242013-01-22T13:31:36.668-08:002013-01-22T13:31:36.668-08:00If future historians base their reconstructions of...If future historians base their reconstructions of our society upon present-day advertisements, history may be even unkinder on us than we deserve.Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-21952442107878781572013-01-22T13:12:25.477-08:002013-01-22T13:12:25.477-08:00My guess is that the dead kids didn't feature ...My guess is that the dead kids didn't feature in the ads either.Substance McGravitashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04118764163822188800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-84886881692373164742013-01-22T13:08:51.745-08:002013-01-22T13:08:51.745-08:00This was a right of passage, conventional and unco...<i>This was a right of passage, conventional and uncontroversial across the country. “Gee, Dad . . . A Winchester!” read one particularly famous ad</i><br /><br />‘Right’... ‘rite’... same thing, write?<br /><br />A cynical person would wonder, if advertising can be used as such a reliable guide to existing social circumstances, why do advertisers spend so much money trying to <b>create</b> that social circumstance?Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-3138325677004247562013-01-21T21:53:18.287-08:002013-01-21T21:53:18.287-08:00Teaching kids to shoot a .22 on a controlled range...<i>Teaching kids to shoot a .22 on a controlled range under strict supervision cannot be conflated with packing third graders. </i><br /><br />That's exactly the point. Cooke starts off saying that once there was a golden age when kids brought guns to school. The Sandy Hook kids were grades 1-4.Substance McGravitashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04118764163822188800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-59890736200456934962013-01-21T21:20:40.819-08:002013-01-21T21:20:40.819-08:00Until 1989, there were only a few school shootings...<i>Until 1989, there were only a few school shootings in which more than two victims were killed. This was despite widespread ownership of — and familiarity with — weapons and an absence of “gun-free zones.” </i><br /><br />Nothing to do with high-capacity magazines and semiautomatic weapons... nothing to do at all. I SAID, NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!!!Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-4271104692293775852013-01-21T19:15:04.290-08:002013-01-21T19:15:04.290-08:00C'mon, subs, you're both better and smarte...C'mon, subs, you're both better and smarter than that.<br /><br />Teaching kids to shoot a .22 on a controlled range under strict supervision cannot be conflated with packing third graders. There's problems, there's solutions, and there's deep piles of bullshit...mikeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057701313718589322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438801388377581634.post-59657874708931718962013-01-21T18:20:53.301-08:002013-01-21T18:20:53.301-08:00Walter Edward Williams (born March 31, 1936) is an...<i>Walter Edward Williams (born March 31, 1936) is an American economist, commentator, and academic. He is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University</i>.<br /><br />You know what happened after 1936? <br /><br />That's right...World War II.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.com