December 2012 - Argghhh!

Because views like this are everyday, and vary with the seasons. And the movement of the herd. Then there's the "When Worlds Collide" aspects of sitting here at the computer and watching the Interior Guard come nose-to-nose with an Exterior Denizen... and you realize that *you* are the exhibit in the zoo this time...

And I like it of course, because it reinforces what I was on about yesterday... Full text of Clayton Cramer's piece is available at the Federalist Society. For those of us who came of age in the 1970s, one of the most shocking aspects of the last three decades was the rise of mass public shootings: people who went into public places and murdered complete strangers. Such crimes had taken place before, such as the Texas Tower murders by Charles Whitman in 1966,1 but their rarity meant that they...

Meh. Yesterday's event points to a serious dilemma. All the mass-shooters have been unwell people who had contact with the system at multiple points. We used to warehouse folks in the bad old days (and I do mean bad). Then, in the name of their personal freedom, we kicked 'em out (and people who in the bad old days would have been warehoused are now enjoying (some of them truthfully so, but I rather suspect most of them not so much) their freedom to sleep on park benches. Those people are...

Too funny. Too true. And very, very, very "in the field" language. Put on those headphones, or don't play this at work! Or in front of the children (don't do that anyway). Or your grandmother. Unless she's a vet. Then you and she can sit at the monitor and do shots.

Hey - You didn't raise that! BOQ

...but we get *paid* to do this! 11/26/2012 - U.S. Army Spc. Richard Burton leans out the door of a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter to get a better view of the ground during a flight mission over Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Nov. 26, 2012. Burton is a crew chief with the 25th Infantry Division's 2nd Battalion, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Brendan Mackie, U.S. Army. (Released)

ARLINGTON, VA – Army Chief of Staff General Ray Odierno announced today the results of an Army-wide study on company and field-grade leadership, which showed Majors are far more dangerous to soldiers than Second Lieutenants. “While this was something we suspected for a long time,” Odierno said, “this study confirms it and provides the scientific background so we can appropriately react.” Read the whole thing here . H/t, 18 bazillion of you in email and on Facebook who...