“Hi! I’m Mahmoud from Teheran. I’m into religion, Jew-hating, and building really big model airplanes.” Iran just unveiled its next thirty-twelfth generation air superiority stealth fighter, the Revell Qaher-313. That thing looks a lot like the fighter planes I designed when I was twelve. Downswept wings! Huge canards! Outswept vertical stabilizers! Aggressively angular fuselage! Apparently,…
Category: in the news.
a thought on the LAPD manhunt.
Only the police should have guns. Because with qualified immunity, they’re not personally liable for turning uninvolved trucks into Swiss cheese in the middle of a residential neighborhood. If you think that the LAPD shooting up random pickup trucks in pursuit of a single threatening suspect is almost comically excessive, think about what would happen…
a suggestion.
“Assault weapons”. “High-capacity magazines.” “Military-style rifles”. The Department of Homeland Security buys 1.6 billion rounds of small-arms ammunition in just a little over a year, and 7,000 fully automatic machine guns for “personal protection”. Police departments all over the country have tanks and drones, and you can’t tell the difference between a police SWAT team…
he didn’t see the “no violence” sign.
Rachel Lucas wins at Internets again, this time for her spot-on assessment of the effectiveness of restraining orders. Of course, if the woman in the video gets a gun and a carry permit to protect herself from a violent psycho who thinks nothing of beating the shit out of her in the middle of a…
the cost of end-of-life care.
So the new Japanese finance minister said something about not keeping old people artificially alive because it incurs unnecessary public costs, and some folks went predictably ballistic over it. See? This is an example of socialized medicine! They’ll just discard old folks when they’re no longer useful! ZOMG DEATH SQUADS! Here’s the thing I don’t…
this person’s vote cancels out yours.
And this is why we don’t ever read comment sections at YouTube or CNN or pretty much any news site on the Interwebs: I think currency is the root of all evil. Take away all the inequality and government interference laws like drug and prostitution,etc etc then you take away any reason to commit a…
a thrill before dying.
Teenage flight student steals plane for a joyride with two buddies, crashes same, and kills everyone on board. That’s some stunning overconfidence right there. Doesn’t even have his pilot license, has only flown a single-engine Cessna a few times, and takes a twin out at night in IFR conditions, with predictable results. He may have…
the impartial media and virtual scarlet letters.
So a newspaper called The Journal News put up an interactive map marking the location of every single registered pistol permit holder in two New York counties. Predictably, they’re getting a little bit of flak for that. Also predictably, the paper’s defense is all “that’s public information, and the public has a right to know.”…
poor wittle mass murderer.
Anders Breivik, the Norwegian crackpot who massacred 77 people last year, isn’t happy about the conditions at his new residence at Ila Prison near Oslo. Apparently he doesn’t get enough butter for his bread, and the handcuffs they put on him when he gets moved around are “too sharp for his wrists.” Let me just…
it’s not like it’s their money, right?
I am so fucking glad that my tax money is being spent on the Pentagon having a workshop that discusses whether Jesus died for space aliens too.