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Holy crap! Olbermann is fired up more than I have ever seen before. I'd vote for this guy...

What the Holy Hell??? Some number of years ago, I first stumbled across Chuck Palahniuk's short story Guts, in which he details a first hand experience of a guy who has his intestines sucked out of his ass in a swimming pool. Of all the Palahniuk stories I have ever read (or anything I have ever read for that matter) this is one of the top 3 stories that really had me twitchy. It appears, however, that this really does happen in real life. Sadly, a 6 year old girl died from it. The following story is from KETV in Omaha Nebraska  read more »

Remember the most quotable movie to come from the 80s? The movie that gave us a young Val Kilmer wearing a toy on his head, because if he wore it anywhere else, it would chafe? The same movie that taught Kent to "Stop Touching Yourself?"

So it went from God to Jerry to Kent to the Military, apparently. After all, what do you think a Phase Conjugate Tracking system is for, anyway?

It is, of course, for this:

A megawatt class chemical oxygen iodine laser mounted on the nose of a 747. And just like the Crossbow in the movie "Real Genius", it does hit it's targets. There have been at least 70 tests so far, but funding is starting to dry up and there is political unrest over the future of the proposed fleet of these $1.5 billion dollar aircraft.  read more »

UPDATE: It appears that the asshats at WBC intend to protest funerals of Tech students. When I find a date for this, I am probably going to take a day and return home and join others who will stand against them and the hate they spew.

First of all, I am sorry if I seem to ramble. Yesterday I was in full on Analytical Mode and was busy digesting all the data I could find relating to the shootings at Tech. This morning, the emotional stuff hit me hard, so I have been having a rough day of it. Thankfully, everyone I know was either off campus or on a different part of campus. I don't think I know of anyone who would have been in the buildings that the murders occured, but I won't know for sure until they release the names of the victims publically.

I noticed today that I have had several unique visitors to my site, 100% of which got here because they were searching google for some combination of Westboro Baptist Church and Virginia Tech. WTF people? Why would you even make the connection? Well, admittedly, it is unfair of me to even ask that, because one of the first things that occured to me yesterday is that Fred Phelps and his inbred wacko family would turn this into some sort of hate filled theological message. I was right in that assumption, as the search strings seem to indicate.  read more »