Meme Dump!

Like a Commie Mobile Home in Space

After Skylab and Salyut, but before the ISS and Tiangong, there was Mir, which is Russian for "Peace" but might as well have meant "Hot Mess"...

That's probably being a little harsh, but a lot of what makes the ISS possible was learned via trial and error on Mir.

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Tab Clearing...

• The Arrestee Formerly Known as Prince


• Someone better alert the Board of Peace


• There is no such thing as grand strategy

The last time we surged this much airpower to the region was in the run-up to OIF in '03 

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Midweek Meme!

Like suddenly running over an alligator in Nebraska.

Of all the days to not have a camera with me, it had to be the one when I bumped into this beauty. If I'm reading my decoder wheel right, this C1 'Vette is a 1960 model in Honduras Maroon.

I took a couple of regular snaps with my iPhone and then backed up far enough to use the "telephoto" lens for this shot, which is probably the best cell phone photo I've ever taken of a car.

You don't often see cars like this out on the road in the winter months north of the Ohio, but it was a freakishly warm and sunny February Monday and there'd been some rain to wash the salt off the road, so I understand the urge to get some wind in your hair.

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Meme Dump!

Better Days

After that brutal cold snap, this warm spell is welcome.

The average high here in Indianapolis on a mid-February day is 41℉ and here it is already 38 degrees and the sun's not even up yet. They're calling for a high of 58, some overnight rain, and then nearly seventy degrees and sunny tomorrow.

Outdoor range time!

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So it goes...

Apparently Jesse Jackson passed away yesterday.

I immediately thought of P.J. O'Rourke's comment from Parliament of Whores...

He may have, in P.J.'s words, had political ideas that sounded like Fidel Castro's Jiminy Cricket, but he sure could speechify.

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Memes for a Warmer Monday!

"Defense" Pact

In addition to artillery shells and rockets, North Korea has sent a large number of troops to fight for Russia in its invasion of Ukraine. Things haven't been going so well for them.

"Under a mutual defence pact with Russia, in 2024 North Korea sent about 14,000 soldiers to fight alongside Russian troops in Ukraine, where more than 6,000 of them were killed, according to South Korean, Ukrainian and western sources."

"Mutual defense pact" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that paragraph, since as I recollect it, Putin's trying to defend his fist from an unprovoked attack by Ukraine's face.

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Meme Dump!

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Automotif DCXII...

A 1971 Ford F-250 Custom Styleside in Grabber Blue with aftermarket decals and partly blacked-out grille. Photographed using a Nikon 1 V3 and 1 Nikkor 10-100mm f/4.5-5.6 VR zoom lens.

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Tab Clearing...

• I had somehow made it this far in life without ever stumbling across the etymology of "dungarees".


• Gallup organization ends nine decades of monthly presidential approval rating polling.


• Ring's expensive Super Bowl ad inadvertently woke a lot of Americans up to the realization that they'd paid to build an Orwellian surveillance network to spy on themselves.

Everybody's Meme-ing for the Weekend!

Shoot Gooder

There's a neat training opportunity in Texas at the end of the month. The class is called "Near and Far: The Complete Handgun Fight", co-taught by Greg Ellifritz and Jeff Gonzales.

Greg describes it thusly:

"The course combines a day of my extreme close range gunfighting concepts with a day of Jeff teaching the long range handgun curriculum he developed for a federal law enforcement agency in the context of active killer/counter-terrorism engagement."

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