Jessica-Hische-1955.jpg 529×675 pixels

Jessica-Hische-1955.jpg 529×675 pixels:

via http://showroomandemporium.blogspot.com/

i wrote a frosty the snowman comic and - something happened

i wrote a frosty the snowman comic and - something happened:

archive - contact - sexy exciting merchandise - cute - search - about
← previous	December 5th, 2012	next
December 5th, 2012: Check out this super awesome article The AV Club wrote about Adventure Time #10! Yay! There's a collection that contains the first five issues, but that doesn't include #10, so you'll have to trust me the other comies are pretty okay too. It's a choose-your-own-story comic, like my Hamlet book! – Ryan

Photo

Photo:

Ex Libris Houdini

Ex Libris Houdini: Ehrich Weisz may not have had much formal education, but he grew up to be Harry Houdini, self-educated stunt performer, escape artist, and owner of "one of the largest libraries in the world on psychic phenomena, Spiritualism, magic, witchcraft, demonology, evil spirits, etc., some of the material going back as far as 1489." Houdini bequeathed much of his collection to the Library of Congress, which received 3,988 volumes from his collection in 1927, including a number of magic books inscribed or annotated by well-known magicians. Archive.org has more of the Harry Houdini Collection online. He also put a great deal of research into his tricks, as seen in his letter to Dr. W. J. McConnell, a physiologist at the U.S. Bureau of Mines, written up after Houdini's watery grave stunt in 1926.

The United States of Guns

The United States of Guns:
From the New Yorker back in April, Jill Lepore wrote about the history of guns in America.

There are nearly three hundred million privately owned firearms in the United States: a hundred and six million handguns, a hundred and five million rifles, and eighty-three million shotguns. That works out to about one gun for every American. The gun that T. J. Lane brought to Chardon High School belonged to his uncle, who had bought it in 2010, at a gun shop. Both of Lane's parents had been arrested on charges of domestic violence over the years. Lane found the gun in his grandfather's barn.

The United States is the country with the highest rate of civilian gun ownership in the world. (The second highest is Yemen, where the rate is nevertheless only half that of the U.S.) No civilian population is more powerfully armed. Most Americans do not, however, own guns, because three-quarters of people with guns own two or more. According to the General Social Survey, conducted by the National Policy Opinion Center at the University of Chicago, the prevalence of gun ownership has declined steadily in the past few decades. In 1973, there were guns in roughly one in two households in the United States; in 2010, one in three. In 1980, nearly one in three Americans owned a gun; in 2010, that figure had dropped to one in five.

Tags: crime   guns   Jill Lepore   USA

It's a Smith and Wesson Christmas

It's a Smith and Wesson Christmas:
This past Black Friday was reportedly "the largest gun sales day in recorded history".
Tags: guns

Malleus' Blog

Malleus' Blog:

via http://malleusdelic.wordpress.com/