My First Pocket Gun?

Just a bit of a comparison between a pistol that, while I do not own, I have shot and am somewhat familiar with and a pistol I just found out about. I've got to admit, the numbers look pretty good from here.

	Kel-Tec P3AT	Sig P290
Weight	8.3 oz.	20.5 oz.
Length	5.2"	5.5"
Height	3.5"	4.9"
Width	.77"	1.1"
Bbl Length	2.7"	2.9"
Caliber	.380 ACP	9mm Luger
Capacity	6+1	6+1
Sight Rad.	3.8"	4.3"

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You Don't Say

Headline from NPR:

Bid For Black Vote Takes On Racial Overtones

No shit, Sherlock.

In other news, water is wet.

*UPDATE* The headline now reads "Bid For Black Vote Spurs Racially Charged Overtones." I guess they read my post.



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Nuking The Fridge*

(*Taken from the Request Multimedia's database description of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, where it is mentioned that movie bloggers coined the phrase to replace use of "jumping the shark" in light of the conclusion of the opening sequence of the movie. I'm probably the last person on Earth to find out about that phrase, but I love the way that sounds. Nuke the fridge. I'm using it from now on.)

So teh internets brought to my attention this morning the heartfelt story of one Virginia Thomas, who many of you may know as the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. In this story, Mrs. Thomas calls Anita Hill to tear open old wounds reach epic levels of pretentiousness request an apology for Hill's accusations of sexual harassment during Justice Thomas' confirmation hearings 20 years ago.

I don't know what compelled me to read this story all the way through (though I can tell you that the voice in my head was in sort of a perma-facepalm the whole time saying "You've gotta be kidding me..."), but it was Mrs. Thomas' comments quoted in the last paragraph that indicates that she has, in fact, nuked the fridge. Welcome to further obscurity, there, ma'am.

In a statement released this week to the Associated Press, Mrs. Thomas said she did not intend to offend Hill with the voice mail. "I did place a call to Ms. Hill at her office extending an olive branch to her after all these years, in hopes that we could ultimately get passed (sic) what happened so long ago," Thomas said in the statement. "That offer still stands, I would be very happy to meet and talk with her if she would be willing to do the same."

I wonder if we could discuss a truce.

Olive branch? Are you... I mean, did she... Just... LOLWhut?!?!

Cue the political distancing in 5... 4... 3...



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You Put Your Weed In It

I haven't weighed in much on Proposition 19 in California, or Mary Ju Wanna in general. For the record, I support the passage of Prop. 19 and would support a nationwide full decriminalization. Folks wanna get high, folks can get high. I gives no fuck.

I would go into detail, but I won't. There's a guy who did it better than I could, and I will not be made inferior on my own blog, dammit!

Srsly, go. Read. All of it. It's two things: very, very well written and possibly the best story ever on CNN.com.



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Missing The Point

I was reading a story this morning about the debate between Harry Reid and Sharron Angle's recent debate. Kind of half-interested, I made with the clicky and started reading the story. I haven't done any kind of fact-checking yet, but I was happy to know that she pulled no punches. It's a definite sign of changing politics, and I find it refreshing.

I'm still for Congressional Cage-Fighting. Just bide your time. They do it in the Far East. Fo real.

Anyway, my reading came to a grinding halt and all the good feelings I was desperately trying to generate disappeared (it's been a rough morning) when I got to one of Harry Reid's comments.

I will further say, if she wants tax cuts made permanent for everybody, we have a deficit problem to worry about, also -- $4 trillion it would cost to have these tax cuts extended in the future. That's quite a load, $4 trillion," he said.

Harry? I hope that this message one day finds it's way to your eyes. Listen very closely to this part, because I don't want to have to repeat it. It would not cost $4T to make those tax cuts permanent, you thieving fucking weasel. It would cost whatever we are paying you retards in Washington to debate it for fourteen fucking forevers before some washed-out version finally becomes law. The $4T you mention? That would be tax revenue that you would be unable to collect, and THAT WAS NEVER YOUR FUCKING MONEY TO BEGIN WITH ASSHOLE!!!

You, and everyone else who believes that said $4T is assumed to be the .gov's money can all go directly to Hell. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.



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Destructor!

This one is for the record books, folks.

See, there's this new virus - a cyber superweapon, if you will - called Stuxnet, that is supposed to get into hydroelectric and nuclear power plants and gum up the works. It is believed to have been created by Israel to target nuclear plants in Iran. Poor Israel. Jews really do get blamed for everything.

"I'm starting to sense a pattern, here."

So anyway, if you haven't read the story, make sure you start with the headline. I don't know about you, but that twisted brain of mine defaulted straight to a world where we would finally get to see the birth of Superheroes (hooray!) and Supervillains (boooo!). Because, seriously, a cyber superweapon? That's the stuff of benevolent government/military research hijacked by The Really, Really Bad Guy. TRRBG steals it in overt, breaking news fashion, uses it once or twice, then is thwarted by Really, Really Strangely Opposite-of-Bad-Guy Good Guy.

"Call me RRSOOBGGG, and I'll curb-stomp your ass, evil or not."

We may not get superheroes out of this, but I bet there's one group who gets just what they want.

Perfect timing there, NPR.



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