Sunday Funnies

-Schlock Mercenary Tagon has nothing to wear.
-TwoLumps A goldfish with attitude.
-xkcd
-Girl Genius Explosions and melted gadgets, another boring day at the lab...
-Delta Bravo Sierra. What to do with AQ.
-Digger Skins remember neck-tying.
-Dreamless Wakeup alert, and the General knows why.
-No Need For Bushido New page Monday!
-My Ninja Family If you see a rabbit, let me know!

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-Gone with the Blastwave
-Lackadaisy
-Dresden Codak
-Argghhh!onauts is busy counting his scars. This could take a while.

Sunday Funnies

-Schlock Mercenary Nick has been ordered to have fun.
-TwoLumps They suck blood and they fly, why aren't mosquitoes vampires?
-xkcd
-Girl Genius Agatha has leveled up.
-Delta Bravo Sierra. Newsmonkeys would make smarter politicians.
-Digger Time for the sword.
-Dreamless Regrets, and time to sleep.
-No Need For Bushido Those aren't campfires.
-My Ninja Family Going hunting with Daddy.

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-Gone with the Blastwave
-Lackadaisy
-Dresden Codak
-Argghhh!onauts zigged when he should have zagged.

About Bloody Time

A discussion of the possible use of letters of marque (via Instapundit). I have been advocating this for *years*. But do I get to publish an article in a law journal? No, I do not.

It would singlehandedly revive the maritime industry (providing Q-ships/privateers), reduce unemployment especially among the young, and encourage the Somali pirates to rediscover their tribal roots as herders. What's not to like?

Science Notes

Some interesting bits that crossed the electron stream of late ...

-Quasars aren't playing by the rules. At least not all of the rules. They are very distant (billions of light-years away) and the light is redshifted as expected given the expanding universe. However, there should also be observable time dilation as well, and there isn't. Supernovae appear to obey the time dilation rule, so why not quasars? I was never completely convinced by the Special Theory of Relativity since some of its conclusions seemed a bit too reliant on pure math rather than physical observation. (E.g, you can solve the equations for a baseball thrown in earth's gravity and get two answers for when it hits the ground, one of them a negative number, if you toss it off a cliff. The math is correct, but it is physically nonsense.)

-Parasitic worms can stop allergies. Goa'uld say "told you so". Apparently these critters can stop the histamine response, which a) keeps them from getting kicked out and b) stops allergies and autoimmune diseases. This may be why there is an explosion of asthma over the years -- people don't have their hookworm friends like they used to. Researchers are trying to figure out how they do it, and maybe use it for Good.

Sunday Funnies

-Schlock Mercenary Date, or counter-intelligence? Only Tagon knows for sure.
-TwoLumps Planting peeps.
-xkcd
-Girl Genius Don't drink the water at Castle Heterodyne.
-Delta Bravo Sierra. Newsmonkeys don't get to go to the Milblog Conference. Speciesists!
-Digger Ganesh is cuing up the drama music.
-Dreamless Eleanor has to hang up.
-No Need For Bushido New page Monday!

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-My Ninja Family
-Gone with the Blastwave
-Lackadaisy
-Dresden Codak
-Argghhh!onauts was beamed up to the mothership. Or lost his map. Something like that.

Something to Think About

It appears that the laws we have aren't enough to keep our ever-lovin' government from doing very stupid things. A lot of very stupid things. Suggestions have been made that perhaps it is time for a Constitutional Amendment Convention. As it happens, I have a few suggestions for improvements. (Lawyers, please mentally insert all the necessary boilerplate that makes it a working Constitutional Amendment. I'm a physicist, okay? I just know Ohm's law and stuff like that.)

1) Congress may make no law wherein they exempt themselves from any rules, regulations, fines, or punishments set forth. (I am really sick and tired of them telling us they are "special" and don't need to follow the rules they create for us. Yes, this means no more fancy healthcare if they take MINE away. I don't want the red pill!)

2) Congress must have an actual, recorded vote on a bill to pass it. The bill must have the same name, ID number, AND CONTENT when passed in both House and Senate to be considered approved by Congress. Text concerning taxation or revenue allocation must retain its original, approved House form. (No more shell bills, or massive hack-n-slash reconciliations, or the degraded custom of "deeming")

3) Any increase in Congressional salary or funding, individual or for Congress as a whole, must be approved of by either the President and the Supreme Court, or by 60% approval in the next Federal election. (Their choice, and I think all the yelping about separation of powers would get very quiet if the only other option was to let the hoi polloi have a say in the matter. Me, I think people entrusted with the till who help themselves to the contents are called embezzlers.)

Any other suggestions?

Sunday Funnies

-Schlock Mercenary Nick has been cured of his curse.
-TwoLumps Spatula wars: Artillery, not a tank.
-xkcd
-Girl Genius Agatha has run out of batteries, but she has a cunning plan...
-Delta Bravo Sierra. The Adventures of Super Sergeant, and newsmonkeys opine on uniform variations.
-Digger Magic all over the place, making a mess.
-Dreamless How to not see a guy who lives in your head.
-No Need For Bushido Atsumori has no high opinion of farmers.

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-My Ninja Family
-Gone with the Blastwave
-Lackadaisy
-Dresden Codak
-Argghhh!onauts got mailed to Topeka in a tragic April Fool's accident. Google regrets the error.