November 2011 - Argghhh!

I run through my usual tropes below - but I want to make a special point this year to thank our Vietnam-era veterans - like, Bill, V29, Grumpy, Concrete Bob, 11B40, et.al., who made it their mission to ensure that the current generation of brand-new veterans would have a completely different homefront experience than they had. And to thank all the others, veteran and non-veteran, who have worked to make sure that while America was at the Mall (at least back when we had the money for that) some Americans...

The new inmates are shown here, keeping a nervous eye on the fuzzy-faced portly guard as they line up in the exercise yard for roll call and ID photos. This pic enlargifies.

A kind of eerie little window to the sounds of the battlefields of the Civil War, courtesy the Smithsonian. In case the embedded video doesn't work (some systems block 'em) click here and get it from the Smithsonian website.

...about America in this PC-driven age of where s/he who is aggrieved the firstest and the mostest is the mostest correct, and the rest of us must adapt or be ostracized by those who have declared themselves our betters...

Boq

In the world of Top Gun, it's Goose who dies too young. Kittehs watch movies, too. And in the Ziegenfuss household in Hawaii, they got the story backwards. In Top Gun: Hawaii, it's Maverick who dies too young, as Carren had to send him to Piddler's Green yesterday because he lost his fight with an internal flight of MiGs. Goose and family mourn today. Maverick is the tall dark handsome fella on the right. Gandalf the Grey of Castle Argghhh! went to Piddler's Green just a few weeks...