Hmmm... I wasn't there, but from everything I've seen on Youtube, it was probably the most spectacular 20-second firework barrage launched purely for entertainment that we'll ever see (now, there have been some truly spectacular explosions as a result of military activity and highly destructive civilian accidents, but those involve other purposes ( Read more... )

So, I was wasting some time watching Rizzoli and Isles, tonight-- and I have seen yet another show do an unforgivable level of "Shark Jumping"....

The baddies have run the detective & doc's car off the road-- the baddies then, after a shoot-out, a bit of waiting, and a little tracking-- have run down the titular detective & doc, have them at gun- ( Read more... )

Seems there's news out now that there have been still more intelligence leaks,  and Fascist Republican tyranny-creators lawmakers are crying for an independent investigation to ferret out the rats and persecute them to the ends of the Earth-- well.... a few comments on the whole government situation:

I find it terribly ironic that NOW the Fascists ( Read more... )

(Prompted by thoughts on a newspaper article about North Carolina's recent decision to narrowly define marriage on religious terms as a part of their state constitution):

Prop 8 passed in California with 52% of the vote FROM THOSE WHO VOTED-- in an election which had maybe 25% turnout of eligible voters... One of the real disgraces is how few ( Read more... )

And on the endless round of politically manipulative imbeciles who keep proclaiming that the United States is a Republic, not a Democracy... that old saw has about as much meaning as a donkey's braying ( Read more... )

Well, happy thanksgiving all.... not sure how optimistic I am this year, as I watch (UN)civil society in the United States steadily sinking into a quagmire of hatred and misunderstanding. But such is humanity these days-- while I'm exceedingly disgusted with so-called "conservative" politics, I'm even more disgusted with the language and attitude ( Read more... )

From the thoroughly irreverent puns department:

Hmmm.... so Apple puts its employees out of work for a day, for a Jobs tribute? :p

Actual article was not rude enough to make any such comparison. Found in the L.A. Times: Leave a comment

"You wouldn't want your doctor doing your job, so why are you doing hers ( Read more... )

According to US policy, 'assassination' of foreign political leaders is illegal and will not be committed by the USA ( Read more... )

Not one war in all of history, probably not even ONE BATTLE, has ever been won by commissioned officers and their equivalents, without the enlisted men or their equivalents-- the troops in the ranks-- to carry out all those fine orders the officers hand down. Throughout most of history, it has been the enlisted men and their equivalents-- the ( Read more... )