First off—our trip was pretty stellar. All the flights and trains were on schedule, all our luggage came along with us, and even though our schedule was packed from front to back, it was actually a pretty relaxing vacation as such things go. We left on February 13th, the day before Quinn’s birthday. Our flights…
achievement unlocked: european vacation complete.
Annnnnnd we’re back. Taking a DSLR to Germany turned out to be a wise decision. I took 1,174 pictures while I was there. Taking an extra suitcase to Germany turned out to be a wise decision as well, because that suitcase came back chock-full of German chocolate and candy. The travel gods smiled upon Team…
travel update.
Team Munchkin Wrangler is still in Germany, and the trip is going swimmingly so far. If you’ve sent me an email or TwitFace message, I’ll probably won’t get around to replying until the middle of next week. They do have the Internets here in Germany, but we’ve been too busy seeing people and doing stuff…
LOLjet.
“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,…
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…
a left argument for gun rights.
I’ve had an essay in the works for weeks now. It’s mostly for my liberal and left-leaning friends and lays out in great detail why opposition to civilian gun ownership is fundamentally un-progressive, historically and philosophically speaking. And out comes The Polemicist with an article that precisely lays out the argument for gun ownership from…
übersnappenclicker.
This? Is quite possibly my new Favorite Thing. Saying that it takes better shots than the iPhone 4 is like saying that an Aston Martin DBS V12 is a little faster than a Fiat 500.
castle frostbite is IFR.
Wee bit foggy out today, eh wot? PEA. SOUP. 47 degrees after weeks of snow and biting cold will do that. I didn’t even see the school bus coming until it was about 30 yards away.
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…