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After all, they’re what you call… experts.
Oh. Wait. So are these guys: Los Alamos National Laboratory Researchers Accidentally Blow up Building with a Cannon.
Whoops. The Mustache of Disapproval radiates disapproval.
(via Mother Jones, via… TPM’s headlines/news aggregator, I think…)
Posted by protected static as geek at 7:15 PM UTC
“Did the framers of our Constitution ever envision something like a semi-automatic weapon?” [Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, D-Seattle] asked.
*sigh* Nor did they envision the Internet or Scientology, yet these are also protected under the Bill of Rights…
Three WA legislators have introduced a ban on so-called assault weapons, partially in response to the ambush and murder of a Seattle policeman. Ironically, the weapon alleged to have been used in this specific attack, while a semi-automatic rifle, is unlikely to be banned under any such legislation.
Posted by protected static as politics at 9:58 PM UTC
Over the weekend we went to the Seattle Children’s Theatre for their “In the Wings” program for Peter Pan. As one of the teachers from the SCT drama school lead the group in various drama-y, interactive-y exercises (for which I have somewhat less than zero patience, but okay… that’s what blogs and iPhones are for), she asked the kids what some of the benefits of not growing up would be.
Listening to more than one child pipe up with variations of “you won’t ever die,” it occurred to me that one of the more poignant aspects of Peter Pan (and perhaps one of the keys to its initial success) is that it takes place a few short years before Nibs, Tootles, Slightly, Curly, and millions of other boys will be permanently Lost in the fire, smoke, and mud of the Western Front…
Posted by protected static as random at 10:10 PM UTC
…groused The Boy as Doc struggled to subdue his hair with industrial quantities of gel, a rubberband, and a thoroughly inadequate hairbrush.
“Come again?” said Doc.
“Their brains are being pulled out by their ponytails.”
Posted by protected static as YADM at 8:34 PM UTC