Monday Memery!

Weirdos.

I see the thought leaders on the Right are yet again rolling a critical failure on their "Can You Just Be Normal For Once In Your Life?" saving throws.

Conventions be damned, I ain't cheering for them.

With Indianapolis being an AFC city, it would be conventional sports fandom to cheer for the AFC team in the Super Bowl if the Colts weren't in it, but... yeah, there's no way I'm cheering for the Pats.

As a kid growing up in Atlanta when the Braves were still in the NL West the joke went "Who are an Atlanta baseball fan's two favorite teams? The Braves and whoever's playing the Dodgers."

So last night's manhandling of New England by the Seahawks was pretty tasty, if vicarious, revenge on our home team's nemesis.

I only caught the second half of the game, which means I watched it devolve from a slightly one-sided 9-0 affair into a 29-13 curb stomping. Seattle fans looked happy about getting sweet vengeance for Super Bowl XLIX.

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Sunday Meme Dump!

Meme Dump!

Overheard in the Office...

RX: "'Archaeologists find evidence of Hannibal's war elephants in Spain'."

Me: "I'm so glad that final consonant turned out to be what it was, because I was braced for 'Archaeologists find evidence of Hannibal's war elephants in space'."

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Gold Medal Memes!

Meme Dump!

Writing Elsewhere...

• People toss "the OODA loop" (aka Boyd's Decision Cycle) around a lot, but what does it mean in the context of personal protection?


• Modifying a Mosin? Why? What do you expect the result to be?

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I like big guns and I cannot lie.

Was HMS Dreadnought revolutionary? Did it trigger a genuine revolution in naval affairs?

For a deep dive into the era, I recommend Massie's Dreadnought and Castles of Steel.

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Gasp. Shock.

After the Department of Justice released three million files over the weekend, blockchain enthusiasts were quick to discover a certain Jeffery Epstein was an active and prominent figure in crypto during its formative years.

You mean the untraceable "currency" most famous for unregulated speculation and its usefulness in paying for criming had some shady figures and twisted sickos in on the ground floor? Who could have predicted that, other than everybody?

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Mid-Week Memes!

Tab Clearing...

• Keeping people mad all the time in order to keep them staying tuned through the commercials to sell Trumpy Bear, commemorative coins, and dick pills has some negative side effects.


• More Epstein Files squickery. (Related: "Russiagate" and the Epstein Files are the same story.)


• Spanish Hornets operating out of Lithuania intercept Russian SU-30 over the Baltic.

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Meme Dump!