Neanderpundit

never been a fan of presidential debates.

Usually, they’re an opportunity for someone with a big lead to blow it, or for someone to say the one thing or make the one gesture that everyone in the media ridicules and which blows it for the candidate. Nixon and Kennedy, for instance. A five-o’clock shadow loses the TV debate for the man who, based on polls of radio listeners, wins it.

It’s all a big pita, if you ask me. No matter how badly Kerry does, the media will portray him as a genius, and no matter how well Bush does, the media will make him look like a fool.

All you can do is pray that the folks watching make up their minds based on integrity.

Here’s the score- read’em and weep!

Countertop said he’d do better, and by god he did!
Me, the kind of results I got are much more indicative of my actual skills.

Thanks again for competing, folks!
Please come back in two weeks, we’ll do it again. Next time, you’ll need a 100 yard range, and a scoped rifle over .300 caliber.

Yesterday, I did a thing I should have done a long, long time ago.

I took the wife to the range.

I’ve taken the daughter before, and we took her along this time, but the wife has been in this country for eleven years and never held a gun in her hand.

Yesterday, we rectified that.

The daughter, of course, was shooting the little Stevens Favorite, on loan from my best friend and partner, Mike. She did OK, even scoring a bullseye! (actually shot out the X ring)

I was proud of her, as always, but proud of Mama too- she shot my Speedmaster, my scoped Cugir, the MKII, and my Colt 380 ACP.

She had fun.

She wants to do it again.

We damned sure will.