The fix (Was Re: NP Misc.)

[bandwraith at aol.com]

Indeed. Good holiday gift.


-----Original Message-----
From: malignd <malignd at aol.com>
To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, Dec 16, 2012 9:56 pm
Subject: Re: The fix (Was Re: NP Misc.)


still music but changing the subject -- 


Sitting where I am listening to Iris Dement's new album.  What an 
amazing singer.  The album is called Sing The Delta.  I can't think of 
anyone to compare her to.  Maybe Maybelle Carter . . .


-----Original Message-----
From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
Cc: eburns <eburns at gmail.com>; Ian Livingston 
<igrlivingston at gmail.com>; owner-pynchon-l <owner-pynchon-l at waste.org>; 
bandwraith <bandwraith at aol.com>; pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, Dec 16, 2012 8:34 pm
Subject: Re: The fix (Was Re: NP Misc.)


It was a good tune.  I remember it well.

On Sunday, December 16, 2012, Joe Allonby wrote:

The Boomtown Rats song was about a real incident in which the school
shooting was done by a teenage girl who "didn't like Mondays and
wanted to liven things up".


On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 10:48 AM,  <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's even worse than that; this kind of tragedy is overwhelmingly
> perpetrated by young, white, privileged men. A kind of elect. Yes,
> testosterone is surely a factor, but not the only one.
>
> Curiously enough, the famous pop song about such an event is about a 
girl.
> Sung by a man, natch.
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> From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> Sender: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 07:37:56 -0800
> To: <bandwraith at aol.com>
> Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject: Re: The fix (Was Re: NP Misc.)
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> Soma?
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> On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 1:51 AM, <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> Demonizing the shooter's mother is the wrong way to go. It may come 
out
>> that she deserves some blame- just buying the guns in my rad-liberal 
brain
>> (despite my testosterone)- is not a good thing. But there is an 
exponential
>> difference between buying, collecting, target shooting at a range 
and the
>> horrendous random killing of twenty innocent children.
>>
>> The burden should not just fall on the shoulders' of mothers: to be 
both
>> the familial counterpoint to the inherent violence of their male 
children
>> (and mates), as well as, too often, the victims of it.
>>
>> Men and women are not equal when it comes to the underlying
>> psycho-physical tendencies to commit mass murder. This needs to be
>> acknowledged and dealt with- not necessarily by hiring more cops 
with more
>> glocks. Got any ideas?
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: kelber <kelber at mindspring.com>
>> To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Sat, Dec 15, 2012 11:23 pm
>> Subject: Re: The fix (Was Re: NP Misc.)
>>
>>
>> And according to friends, the shooter's mom was a gun freak who 
encouraged
>> her
>> sons to go to the shooting range with her.
>>
>> Laura
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>>
>>> From: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
>>> Sent: Dec 15, 2012 11:08 PM
>>> To: bandwraith at aol.com
>>> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>> Subject: Re: The fix (Was Re: NP Misc.)
>>>
>>> Women will promptly hand those guns over to some man,  either "Mr.
>>
>> Right"  or a
>> son or a brother - someone.   The Sandy Hook killer's guns were 
registered
>> in
>> his mom's name.
>>>
>>>
>>> Bekah
>>>
>>> On Dec 15, 2012, at 4:15 PM, bandwraith at aol.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> 1. Adopt "Smart Gun" technology for all new guns.
>>>>
>>>>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Gun
>>>>
>>>> 2. After a grace period, all new ammunition must be smart gun
>>
>> specific- i.e.,
>> will only work in smart guns.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 3. Women can legally buy as many guns, bazookas, rocket launchers,
>>
>> etc., as
>> the like.
>>>>
>>>>   3a. Men cannot and are not permitted to own guns