Guns Don't Kill People. Ritalin Kills People.

In a just world, Ollie North would be in prison. Or, perhaps, out on parole.

But this is not a just world...

So Oliver North, who was a TRAITOR, and probably still is, if the price is right, has a new gig!

Ollie is the newest mouthpiece of the NRA.

And Ollie's bit of wisdom about our latest (as of the instant I type this) school shooting, is that it happened because kids are on ritalin.

Not because of the ease at which anyone, even the craziest among us, can get access to all kinds of weaponry. Including some rifles that should only be found on a battlefield.

Not because the NRA, which is essentially the lobbyist for gun manufacturers, has had the Congress in its pocket for 30 years.

Not because the Second Amendment fetishists get all wound up by spurious claims that "the gubmint is coming for our guns!"

Not because this loud, vocal, minority cares more about their guns than they do about anything else. Anything.

No. None of those.

It's the ritalin that's to blame. That makes perfect sense, don't it?

Goddamn, this is a stupid country, chock full of very stupid people.

Down Memory Lane

Gee, it's funny what we remember and what we don't.

I'd forgotten how insufferably smug Peggy Noonan is...

I wonder who they'll roll out next. Is Ollie North still alive? Does the uniform still fit?