September, 2017 archive
War Games 0
From my local rag:
Unlike other types of submarines people are familiar with from Hollywood, Virginia-class submarines don’t have a traditional rotating tube periscope that only one person can look through at a time.
It’s been replaced with two photonics masts that rotate 360 degrees. They feature high-resolution cameras whose images are displayed on large monitors that everyone in the control room can see. There’s no barrel to peer through anymore; everything is controlled with a helicopter-style stick. But that stick isn’t so popular.
In the “words fail me” department, the story goes on to point out that the XBox controllers will cost just 0.1% of the controller designed by the defense contractor.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Practice random acts of politeness.
If the young lady had been packing, no doubt this would not have happened.
Complicity 0
Badtux points out that, in the face of evil, silence means consent.
Follow the link to read why he says that.
QOTD 0
Edmund Crispin:
What a symposium of deadly sins the poor fellow seems to have been . . . .
Spoken by Gervase Fen in Crispin, Edmund, Swan Song (New York: Avon Books, 1947), p. 95
The Art of the Con 0
Shorter Seth: No, Trump is not suddenly an “independent.”
Excerpt:
. . . being an independent is not the same thing as being a rudderless narcissist.
Hoist on the Elmer Gantries 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., marvels at the plethora of prophets proposing to profit from meteorlogical despoilation.
The Biblical “scribes and pharisees” had nothing on this lot.
Bush League 0
Trudy Rubin explains why Trump is not even close.
Tell a Tale of Privilege 0
Richard G. Carlson tells one such tale in The Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
Excerpt or summary won’t do it justice. Just read it.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
At The Daily Banter, Bob Cesca looks at America’s response to climate change and despairs. A snippet:
For example, rather than eating right and exercising, while supporting efforts to improve our food supply, we’d rather pop a few Lipitor to reduce our cholesterol, or a Nexium to reduce the acid reflux.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Just another day in NRA Paradise.