December 2012 - Argghhh!

...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)

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...

This would be it.

Yanno, back in the day when rural school parking lots were full of deer rifles and shotguns (true at my non-rural high school in the 70's, too) and a lot of schools had indoor rifle ranges and teams. November 2, 1922, Girls Rifle Team, Central High." Wanna guess where the team was? Or this one, at the Drexel Institute?

Ever wonder how the Illiberal Media would cover Christmas today? BOQ

...and not as I do: BOQ

This is the Soviet/Russian approach to firing data computation. In this case, a FD kit for the M1944 122mm howitzer. In English. Used by the Iraqis, Pakis, and other english-speaking customers of the Eastern Bear. Never seen one in Arabic, oddly enough.