Tennessee has made it a felony to sleep on public property. I think that includes sidewalks as well as city parks.

No more onion links.

I just learned that pages in theonion.com are totally invisible when viewed without running Javascript code — they show a blank window. I get those pages as HTML by email, and render them non-graphically, and the text was plain to see that way. However, in a graphical browser, that same text does not appear.

It is against my principles to post links to pages that require JavaScript to view, so I must cease the practice of posting links to the onion pages that I like.

If you can make contact with the editors of theonion.com, and ask them to please make the contents of their pages visible in browsers that have Javascript disabled or use LibreJS, I would appreciate that. They might listen.

Proposing that 18-year-olds should not be allowed to buy guns.

How about increasing the minimum age for gun purchases to 150?

The previous two Australian ruling parties, Liberal and National, pretended to support decarbonization but in practice opposed efforts in that direction. Now that they have lost an election, and partly because of that, their leaders are planning to come out totally in favor of roasting Earth.

Perhaps we should refer to them as the Flood and Burn parties.

The uniformed thugs who arrived at the Reed school in Uvalde took 40 minutes to shoot the killer who was inside the school.

Some of the people waiting with them complained about how long they waited before going in.

Were they individually at fault for taking so long? I don't have a basis to reach that conclusion. Perhaps they were somehow stymied by the situation and were waiting for a solution.

What is clear is that the presence of a "good guy with a gun" does not prevent such shootings.

Uniformed thugs stationed in a school can't stop a killer who has come prepared, but they spend their days threatening and arresting students.