Snort!.
(Click for full size. It’s big.)
Anybody play WoW? I’m more of a Call of Duty guy, myself.
Sorry About the Lack of Posting…
A combination of my allergies kicking my ass, the arrival of my copy of Battlestar Galactica, Season 3, and my reading (P.J. O’Rourke’s On The Wealth of Nations and Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism) has kept me away from the computer. Well, that and work. We’re ridiculously busy.
I’ve been working on another überpost, but I’ve found some things in the early chapters of Liberal Fascism that work with that piece, so I’m delaying it until I can think about it in more detail.
Please bear with me during this slow period.
OK, This is Cool!.
Richard Branson, founder of Virgin, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Google, have decided that Man needs to mine other planets. Mars is first up on their list.
Let’s just hope that Microsoft isn’t doing the software!
Actually, I hope they’re serious, but it will take more money than they have to do what they want. It’ll take more than they have plus what Bill Gates has.
I still want to see viable colonies elsewhere in the solar system before I shuffle off this mortal coil, though. Lunar, L5, Martian, even inhabited asteroids in the belt between Mars and Jupiter. Humanity needs a diaspora.
(ETA: For the record, I figure this is a Google April Fool’s Day joke – read the pages they put up. But it’s nice to dream.)
“The secret of social harmony is simple: Old men must be dangerous.”
That quote is from Grim’s Hall, in his piece Social Harmony, quoted here before in the first part of my Dangerous Victims trilogy.
Someone learned that lesson last Wednesday. (h/t: Instapundit)
Police: Teen makes mistake of trying to rob former U.S. Marine
SANTA ROSA – A boy in his mid-teens learned Wednesday afternoon that it is not a good idea to try to rob a former U.S. Marine at knifepoint, even if the former Marine is 84 years old, police said today.
Santa Rosa police Sgt. Steve Bair said that’s what happened around 2 p.m. in the 1600 block of Fourth Street. The elderly man was walking with a grocery bag in each arm when the boy approached him with a large knife, Bair said.
The boy said, “Old man, give me your wallet or I’ll cut you,” Bair said. The man told the boy he was a former Marine who fought in three wars and had been threatened with knives and bayonets, Bair said.
The man then put his bags on the ground and told the boy that if he stepped closer he would be sorry. When the boy stepped closer, the man kicked him in the groin, knocking him to the sidewalk, Bair said. The ex-Marine picked up his grocery bags and walked home, leaving the boy doubled over, Bair said.
The man reported the attempted robbery to police 45 minutes later.
Bair said the teen is described only as 15 or 16 years old. Anyone with information is asked to call the Police Department.
Ah, I love a happy ending!
Comcast Issues May Be Resolved.
I have a new cable modem. The old one went completely TU last night, so I exchanged it this morning. So far, so good.
Regular posting to resume… soon.
Quote of the Day.
(A)s a rule, people don’t want to read classics, not even if they’re free. If somehow you were able pry them away from their televisions long enough to read the book aloud to them, I’m convinced that before long they would stick their fingers in their ears and start writhing as if they were in agony, screaming, “The thinking! It hurts! My brain…all ‘splodey! Oh nooo!”
And yet, they vote. (Which explains the continuing decline in the quality of our elected officials.)
This QotD brought to you by Breda. There’s another good quote in that one, by Ray Bradbury.
Still Having Comcast Issues.
Posting will remain light. (I’m posting this one from work – before normal working hours, of course!) Looks like I will have to wait until whatever is causing the problem becomes permanent so a service tech can figure it out. They, of course, never can be at the house when the link is down.
Harry Carried a Smith in Afghanistan?.
That’s what it looks like in this pic (click to see full size):
What do you think? I’d have expected a Browning Hi-Power.
(And check out the ball cap!)
Now THIS is Interesting…
(via Instapundit)
The Supreme Court grants cert. to U.S. v Hayes.
First, find an individual right; second, start delimiting that right? If so, they’re moving rapidly.
UPDATE 3/26: Dave Hardy has more – in the vein of “Invoking Heller is a stretch.” Dave’s a lawyer, so he ought to know. I don’t even play one on TV.
Quote of the Day.
I’m frankly surprised that ABCNNBCBS didn’t have a news truck on the lawn of the lucky mom in time for the early AM news cycle.
– Tam, on the media’s “commemoration” of the 4.000th soldier to die in Iraq.
RTWT.