Headline of the year?

Via Breitbart:
Insane killer escapes on field trip to county fair
A criminally insane killer from eastern Washington is on the run after escaping during a field trip to the county fair that his mental hospital organized.
Why such a dangerous person was out in public was a question many, including Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire, were asking [...]

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I don’t care if they’re evil – we must have them!

Come on, don’t act surprised. Of course someone like me, who grew up loving old science-fiction movies and Japanese anime, would feel his heart go pitter-pat at the thought of US war robots that feed on the dead:
A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself [...]

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A digression into politics

Normally I don’t put politics on this blog, but there are reasons to make the occasional exception; this is one of them. My State Assemblywoman, Speaker of the Assembly Karen Bass (D), voiced some opinions regarding the rights of free speech that I found, well, objectionable. The following is the letter I sent her:
Dear Speaker [...]

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Even pizza-delivery guys can be heroes

It’s a good thing for the victim that her rapist got hungry:
Chris Turner normally wouldn’t drive into the remote Tennessee mountains just to deliver a pizza. The one time he did, he came upon a scene that drained the color from his face and made him “numb from head to toe” – a woman with [...]

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