Hump Day Grins
I am a giant fan of Clay Bennett, the Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist who toons for the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
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I am lucky to have a great Texas friend named Dennis Tardan who does internet radio interviews with interesting people. He interviewed Clay Bennett in a smart, insightful, and charming segment a couple of weeks ago. You can listen to it online or download it to your iPod to make a road trip or a workout more fun. Click right here.
Now that ought to get ya to Friday.
I saw a bumper sticker once that said:
“The Voices in My Head Keep Telling Me to Load My Gun”
It was on an ’84 Chevy Pickup.
Just Saying….
1Why do the voices always encourage violence?
Or is it they are the only ones we hear about?
2I think a lot of gun shop owners will be irked that this cartoonist misrepresented them in this cartoon – the seller looks a little concerned about what the would-be buyer is saying, when instead most sellers would be smiling in glee and rubbing their hands together in anticipation of upselling multiple guns to this buyer.
31) I know the voices aren’t real but they have some good ideas.
2) My wife worked in the local Post Office. I called her one day and asked what she was doing. Evidently, her co-workers freaked out at her answer, “Oh, just cleaning my gun”.
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Multiple voices with guns………what could possibly go wrong?
5Who needs background checks?
6That reminds me very much of a time when we still went to shooting ranges, and the visit that broke us of that hobby.
Went to a range that would rent you a gun (we had our own). Guy walks up to the counter in full camo, and not looking too sane, and wants to rent an Uzi. We left, and never came back to that shooting range or any other one. Call us chicken…..
(Actually, I guess he wasn’t any scarier than any someone you don’t know, and some you do, with a gun in their hand – he just caused us to think about it.)
7People have no concept of “self-assessment.” I don’t own a gun for a reason. That turd left lane hogging on 35 today (trying to get home, from Austin, in the damn rain) made my voices have a conversation with each other about how would be the best way to blow him off the road. The voices came to a consensus of SHOOT HIM. Fortunately for me that was not a realistic option.
8Shelly, that’s exactly why my dad would never keep a gun in the house.
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