Hasn’t it been a sputteringly surreal experience, listening to sports commentators suddenly become “gun control” experts, just because one maladjusted, overly indulged thug … did what thugs do?

Leave it to Tam, Mistress of Snark, to know exactly how to respond.

(Side note: Why aren’t the “experts” calling just as loudly for compound bow control?)

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• The Obamacare future is nigh. (H/T JB)
• PBS (rather belatedly) asks if we’re safer with all that “suspicious activity” reporting. (Tip o’ hat to RLW)
• Is there a vampire on the loose? (Or merely a clever tourism scheme?)
• Did you see anything in the MSM about pennies and nickels being phased out next year? (ADDED: Nevermind. It’s a hoax.)
• Anybody here ever drink a switchel? I’d never heard of it until I ran into the term in the fascinatingly eccentric little book The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition (thanks for the recommend, JG). Apparently at one time the switchel was recommended to help wean Americans off their boundless alcohol consumption.
• Since a code-breaking story went over so well last week, here’s another. This one involves Roger Williams, one of the best and most underappreciated (except by Rhode Islanders) early Americans.
• Finally, for your Monday morning work avoidance, here’s a bizarre bit of history involving the CIA, a bag lady, an assassination, and “the James Bond of money.” Weird, weird things “our” government gets up to.

And what the heck, why not throw in a dog?

(Also H/T JB)

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