HoodedHawk

This quote was on the side of my Starbucks coffee cup this morning:

Everywhere, unthinking mobs of “independent thinkers” wield tired cliches like cudgels, pummeling those who dare question “enlightened” dogma. If “violence never solved anything,” cops wouldn’t have guns and slaves may never have been freed. If it’s better that 10 guilty men go free to spare one innocent, why not free 100 or 1,000,000? Cliches begin arguments, they don’t settle them.
[Jonah Goldberg, Editor-at-large of National Review Online]

I’m catching up, so I’ve posted more photographs on the Photography page, including shots of the Fireworks this 4th of July, the National Zoo, the Museum of the American Indian, etc.

Went to the range today. Haven’t been in awhile, so it was good to know I can still hit the broad side of a barn. Still hitting right and low – need to work on a better squeeze; I sometime anticipate the shot.

Sig Sauer 380 auto, 25ft.	Smith & Wesson 9mm, 25ft

   
This Saturday I went to see author Matt Bondurant reading “The Third Translation” at Politics and Prose bookstore, Washington, D.C.
This was my first time at this bookstore; nice store with a good cafe in the lower level.

I recorded parts of the reading. Have a listen!