Open Thread: Peace Breaks out in Kiev
I’m back from Ukraine and I have many photos. I’ll be posting more as editing time allows. Until then, enjoy the relative calm in Eastern Europe with this peaceful moment on the barricades of Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square).
Bigot Bullets – It’s a thing.
So what do you get for the racist gun nut that has everything? Pork laced bullets. Yes. This is a thing now. According to the HuffPost, these lovely bits of ammunition are laced with pork paint. South Fork Industries, based in Dalton Gardens, Idaho, claims its ammunition, called Jihawg Ammo, is a “defensive deterrent to those who violently act in the name of Islam.” The bullets are coated in pork-infused paint, which the company states makes the ammo “haram,” or unclean, and therefore will keep a Muslim who’s shot with one of the bullets from entering paradise. “With Jihawg Ammo,…