Lawnmower Boy

Speaking of assault rifle incidents, a text exchange from last week's hospital shooting in Tulsa:
 

 
 

Well, you should stop doing that before you go blind.

Totalitarian states don't have much visible dissent, even under appallingly adverse circumstances.
 
Effects of Strategic Bombing on German Morale in WW2  (142-page image PDF)

Yes, but Chefs, hair stylists, and nail technicians handle knives, scissors and buffers which are far more dangerous than guns.

I can see it, if many of the stab wounds are to half-BODY locations and started out with an above average BODY score, and got some lucky Bleeding rolls.

This is a little like how Colorado Rockies fans know their team isn't getting better anytime soon because you can't fire the owner.

The correct answer to "Are you against slavery?" is "Yes", not "No comment". 

by Nathan Baertsch
 

My friend decided to join Sir Terry on the morning of May 31 2022  - a master of trivia and avid hero games enthusiast.
TJack always liked stories and told some to his goddaughter two days ago. He then threatened to tell racy stories about the 14 year old’s mother “when you get to be 18”. 
 
TJack humored me. He had created Jack Flash who was Bill Maxwell rejuvenated by the little green guys and given Ralph Hinkley’s supersuit who promptly got lost in the multiverse while testing his powers. I suggested that since Bill Maxwell had lost his Black partner at the FBi and that Robert Culp played Kelly Robinson in I Spy that it would be a cute twist if Bill the FBI agent was a retired spy and that Alexander Scott was the deceased partner. 
 
I’ll be spinning tales of a kind man in his honor. Those who will miss his wit are welcome to do the same. My sympathies to those who will miss him.

It was on the drive today up to where the father-in-law died that I realized that getting old isn't what sucks.  What sucks is that everything and everyone around you gets old too, and they leave the world without your permission.

My brother fell down a flight of stairs and suffered a traumatic brain injury 15 years ago or so. Since then he's been unable to hold a job, so he's been living on disability in a rent-controlled apartment two hours away from my parents.
 
I got a call from my Dad about an hour and a half ago. My brother had apparently been found unresponsive in his apartment this morning and taken to the hospital. He's in the ICU under sedation and on a ventilator. They think he had a seizure. That's all anyone knows so far. Dad's going down tonight or tomorrow to get a closer look at the situation.
 
With the last week of the school year coming up next week, I might as well be on the Moon.

That is the weirdest thing I've ever heard you say.

Late father-in-law's cat, on my shoulder.  (I have trimmed out the non-cute parts of th epicture.) This cat had never really wanted much to do with me before, but today, as the first old man on the premises in about a month, this evening she decided she wanted shoulder time.  At home, Spike (a/k/a Fluff Butt) also demands regular shoulder time.