OK, It’s July 5th. Summer’s About Over. Pool’s Closed
I live in Maine. Summer’s the nicest day of the year here.
(Thanks to longtime reader Charles Schneider for sending that one along)
Reporter Is Mousy, But He’s Game
The Vice Channel sends out a semi-intrepid reporter to the Big Sandy Shoot in Arizona.
Vice tries to cultivate a wild and crazy image about themselves. But considered dispassionately, they’re the real squares, doing real reporting. Interesting and compelling things are going on in the world, and they go and look at them and report what they’ve seen. That’s what reporting is, or at least what it used to be. No other news organization I know of would have used that gathering as anything but a pretext for a camouflaged editorial.
By being a kneejerk oppositionist, any other reporter would have missed out on discovering that shooting big guns is fun, and interesting, and the people that do it in Arizona seem like pleasant, friendly, and avuncular folks.
Super Slow-Motion Clay Pigeon Shooting Is A Blast
Please exhibit trigger discipline at all times, unless that guitar player walks in front of you.
The Only Scary Thing In This Video Appears At 0:21
Someone is carrying ammo in a United States Postal Service bin. Coals to Newcastle, son; coals to Newcastle.