Whipped Cream Difficulties

NYT headline:

Rodriguez’s Lawyer Calls Baseball’s Offer a ‘Trap’

(Edited to add: I am willing to offer karma points and gratitude for a photoshop of Admiral Ackbar in a Yankees uniform.)

At least Richard Cohen is consistent. Here’s a man who’s never met a totalitarian initiative he doesn’t like.

Speaking of NYC and guns…

“A lot of firepower,” Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg mused as he paused to look at some of the 254 guns — large-caliber pistols and military-grade weapons modified to improve aim and avoid detection —

Say what?

Officials said two men — Earl Campbell of Rock Hill, S.C., and Walter Walker of Sanford, N.C. — bought stolen guns from associates or used straw purchasers at legitimate stores, then simply loaded them into suitcases and boarded cheap buses to Chinatown or occasionally drove in private cars. Most of the deals were for several weapons; one sale, for $9,700, included 14 weapons.

So let’s see. NYC has strict gun control. So crooks are stealing weapons (already illegal) or engaging in “straw purchases” (also illegal, and rarely prosecuted by the Feds). So what we need is more gun control, and also stop and frisk.

During the investigation, which emerged last August from an unrelated drug case, the undercover detective watched as two of the suspects struggled to assemble an assault rifle during a sale. They even looked at an instructional video on their smartphone, said Bridget G. Brennan, the city’s special narcotics prosecutor, before the detective agreed to buy the gun in pieces.

I would laugh at these guys, but…I’ve got my own embarrassing gun related issue (which I will write more about at some time in the future; no, it wasn’t a negligent discharge, I’m just having problems getting something to run right), so I’m withholding the laughter for now.