Fact and fiction: the shootout at the OK Corral

I inherited a stack of books and DVDs at the weekend because my dad is having a pre-moving clear out. Among them was a set of books about the American West given to my dad by my grandparents in 1976, and a DVD of Tombstone, the film about the Earp brothers and the OK Corral fight.

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Review: ‘Furiously Happy’ by Jenny Lawson

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Pan Macmillan
24th September 2015
ISBN 9781447238324

Furiously Happy is a book about mental illness, but under the surface it’s about embracing joy in fantastic and outrageous ways. And who doesn’t need a bit more of that?

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Dear liberals: please stop derailing things about protest by ~condemning the violence~

stavvers's avatarAnother angry woman

Apparently someone gobbed at a journalist yesterday. And a Tory got some egg on him.

Oh, and there was a protest where 60,000 people protested the Tory choices which are literally killing people.

One would think that that would be the thing to focus on, really, but apparently it’s more important to discuss that there was some saliva in a bloke’s hair. And condemn it.

Falling over themselves to show off how respectable they are, liberals have surged to bang on about how it’s Very Bad That There Was Violence, because that means It’s All That Anyone Will Talk About And The Messages Will Be Lost. And they’re partially right. The messages are being lost. Precisely because liberals are rushing to distance themselves from a very minor incident.

We could talk about how things are so bad the UN is investigating Britain’s treatment of disabled people, that fitness to work assessments

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