Archive for November 3rd, 2022

Very brief update.

Thursday, November 3rd, 2022

Former Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith: Guilty on every count.

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Brief random gun crankery.

Thursday, November 3rd, 2022

If I had a million dollars…

…I’d put in a bid on this. It does push two of my hot buttons:

  • Smith and Wessons.
  • Theodore Roosevelt.

But that might not be enough: the estimate is $800,000 – $1,400,000. That’s a lot of money, but still less than a vintage warbird or car. And it would be cheaper to maintain…

(I don’t know if you can get factory loaded .38 Long Colt ammo. Starline does offer brass, so you could load your own, but they currently list it as “backordered”.)

I think I actually saw this gun earlier this year, but I did not handle it. Nor did I ask to. Further, deponent sayeth not.

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Obit watch: November 3, 2022.

Thursday, November 3rd, 2022

George Booth, New Yorker cartoonist.

But the hands-down readers’ favorite was Mr. Booth’s mad-as-a-hatter bull terrier, who whirled in circles until dizzy, scratched himself a lot and posed glowering on a lawn beside a sign warning: “Beware! Skittish Dog.” He adorned New Yorker T-shirts and became the magazine’s unofficial mascot, nearly as notable as the top-hat-wearing Eustace Tilley, who appears on the cover once a year. As Lee Lorenz, The New Yorker’s art editor, once put it, “If you can’t recognize a Booth cartoon, you need the magazine in Braille.”

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After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, The New Yorker said it would not run cartoons that week. But Mr. Booth submitted one anyway, showing Mrs. Ritterhouse, a recurring character modeled after his mother, with head down and hands folded in prayer. Her cat covered its face with its paws. It was the only cartoon The New Yorker ran that week.

(Hattip: Lawrence.)

Erica Hoy, Australian actress. IMDB. She was 26, and died in a car crash.

Ray Guy, punter. He was a first round draft choice for the Raiders in 1973:

It was the first time a punter had ever been picked in the first round, and it’s only happened one other time since — Steve Little, in 1978 by the Cardinals, and he was also a kicker.
Guy played with the Raiders, who moved to Los Angeles in 1982, through the end of his career in 1986. He made the Pro Bowl seven times and was a first-team All-Pro in six different seasons. He played a role in three Super Bowl championships.

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