Hours after he posted the joke, a SWAT team descended on Bailey’s Louisiana home. According to court documents, officers with guns drawn ordered Bailey to his knees. He was placed in handcuffs, told he was under arrest, and instructed that his next Facebook post should tell readers “not to f*** with the Police.” [More]
The law of the instrument writ large.
[Via bondmen]
‘Give a boy a hammer and everything he meets has to be pounded.’
If it were only that simple. No one ever gave my grandson a hammer. Every toy he owned became a hammer and every object within reach somehow needed to be pounded.
“Moonwatcher steps ashore and walks to One-Ear, who stands unsurely in front of his band.
Though he is a veteran of numerous combats at the water’s edge,
One-Ear has never been attacked by an enemy who had not first
displayed his fighting rage; and he had never before been attacked
with a weapon. One-Ear, merely looks up at the raised club until
the heavy thigh bone of an antelope brings the darkness down
around him.
The Others stare in wonder at Moonwatcher’s power.
Moonwatcher surveys the scene. Now he was master of the world, and he was not sure what to do next… But he would think of
something.” — From “2001 A Space Odyssey.”