The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century

I know that I have a rep for being a somewhat dirty-minded guy, but please tell me that you see what I see in the photo above.

I have got to rig up my accordion with booze like this Russian guy did. He opens with Bach’s Tocatta and Fugue in D minor and does a pretty good impression of Eduard Khil, the “Trololo Guy”:

Watch the video, he puts on a pretty impressive performance:

…but I’m glad that someone out there is keeping the tradition alive.

Sean Tevis at a shooting range. Click to see at full size.

My internet friend Sean Tevis, whom you may remember from his “300” campaign to run for Senate in Kansas and bring some much-needed sanity to their government…

…has a proposal for the current debate on guns. It’s in the topmost photo in this post (click it to see it at a larger size), or read it below:

There’s been a lot of talk about how guns can be used to defend yourself.

So I went to a firing range.

It takes a surprising amount of time to load it and ready yourself to shoot.

Then, from 25 feet away, I hit the target twice. A stationary, non-moving, not-hiding-behind-things and trying-to-attack me kind of target.

But it was kind of…fun.

To my Pro-Gun friends, I have some advice. Drop the arguments about needing guns to protect yourself from bad guys. And also the dubious Founding fathers/defend-against-a-tyrannical-government scenarios like Red Dawn. These arguments make you seem crazy. Paranoid. Scary.

Instead, tell us why it’s fun. That you’ll do your best to make sure no one gets hurt. Then work with us to find ways to make America safe, secure and strong.

As a guy who believes that there is such a thing as responsible gun ownership — and as someone dating the world’s cutest NRA member — I think it’s worth considering what Sean’s saying.

Interested in getting a slot at my coworking space? Check out this article in Global Nerdy for more details.

Please, please, please tell me that you can answer the questions in the quiz above. The National Post ran a story stating in which sociology prof Judith Adler at Memorial University reports:

“A sizeable proportion of the class would reliably have no idea where the Mediterranean is. Some students would circle Africa and indicate that it’s Europe, and if asked to locate England and Ireland, they would put them in Africa. I have had students that aren’t able to correctly label the Atlantic Ocean, even though we are on it.”

For those of you not familiar with Memorial University, it’s in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and 6 kilometres (3.8 miles) away from Signal Hill, which provides a commanding view of the ocean that some of Adler’s students could not identify.

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As with most news organizations’ sites, half the fun is in reading the comments, which are typically a cesspool of trolling, misinformation, conspiracy theories and racism. My favourite comes from this somewhat unhinged character (the emphasis is mine):

How deep the rot goes is shown right above on Judith Adler’s own map of coloured continents. Apparently, according to Adler, Europe now includes a whole bunch of Asia, ie. India, the Arabian Peninsula, the Himalayas and a lot more.

And then he gets into wearing-a-pillowcase0on-your-head territory:

Adler is like a fireman who starts fires in order to prove his heroism in putting them down. In this case, it is exactly Adler and her cronies from academia who are responsible for dumbing down the population in order to satisfy their neo-Marxist sick fantasies of equality between races and cultures (with the little twist of eliminating Europeans in the process). If we are all the same, what difference does it really make where Europe is, or what’s the capital city of Poland. Since Adler & co. already profess that it should not matter if the Germans look Teutonic or Negroid, why should it matter if they are in Europe or somewhere below Timbuktu? As they force multiracialism and multiculturalism down our throats, geographical positions of a given country are just irrelevant details. And the UK already looks half-asian/african anyway, so what’s the big deal?

Here’s a close-up of the map about which he’s complaining:

He blames the miscolouring of Europe and Africa on Adler, when the credits on the right clearly state that it’s a stock image. My only response is: “Master race, my ass.”

I’ll admit that if I were in my impish teenage years and working in a video store, I might’ve pulled the same prank.