This video, “Conspiracy Theory Rock, was shown once on Saturday Night Live, (link is to higher quality Youtube with embedding disabled) but it is never shown on reruns, because Lorn Michaels says that it is “Not Funny.”
You know, I guess if Robert Smigel cut a new one with my paymasters at GE & NBC, and detailed how they used their media power to produce propaganda for their parent firms, I might not find it funny either.
Heh
The US Army:
In a fingertip-to-the-brim nod to its American frontier history, the Army is changing hats again – returning to the tumultuous days of the horse Cavalry in the wild west and adopting a dark blue Stetson as the official headgear for the current force of 1.1 million Soldiers.
“We figure the Stetson will be popular with the troops,” said Sgt. Maj. Bob S. Stone, Army Uniform Board headgear task force president. “It’s been a while since we have changed the headgear, so it’s time. Plus a Stetson is functional and down right American.”
But reminiscent of the controversial switch from the garrison cap to the black beret, the Army faces opposition from one community deeply opposed to losing its special identity with the Stetson – the Armor branch.
“Why in the heck are they doing to us what they did to the snake-eaters?” asked one officer familiar with the board’s deliberations. “If you ain’t Cav, you ain’t ought to be wearing a Cav hat. That just ain’t right.”
The Pentagon is generally the last place I would expect a good sense of humor, so props to the US Army.
H/t DC at Stellar Parthenon.
Jon Stewart explains the current sissy war going on between CNN and Fox News over their Libya coverage.
It’s why he’s the best news anchor in the business, and why we are all unbelievably screwed, because we have to rely on a professional comedian to find actual news.
Seriously, I do analysis, I write explanations, and then Jon Stewart, and the rest of the staff of The Daily Show explain everything, in simpler terms, and more entertainingly, in 4 minutes and 29 seconds on air.
You can’t simultaneously fire teachers and Tomahawk missiles…
H/t The Mad Piper at the Stellar Parthenon BBS.
*If you are wondering, “What is goatse, Do Not Google It. If you find out, you will never be the same, and I do not mean that in a good way.
Notwithstanding this hysterically funny condemnation of him in a Chinese newspaper, they assert that, as opposed to sharing his bed with two pr0n stars, he should put them up in a separate house,* Charlie Sheen is now on my list of They Who Must Not Be Named.
Please God, never have him run for public (or in his case pubic) office.
*Apparently, the Chinese have never heard of a menage a trois.
I miss Bill Maher’s late night show on ABC, Politically Incorrect.
He has this thing on HBO now, and in some ways, it’s better, because he can use George Carlin’s 7 dirty words on it, but I don’t have HBO, and don’t plan to pay for it, but he’s good at what he does.
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From the list 25 Guys to Avoid on Wall Street:
Avoid the guy who offers his clients ‘a very special opportunity’ to invest in anything. He has a problem with cocaine.
I will note the parallel between this guy and just about every ‘very special episode’ of a TV series with young characters.
They both involve drug abuse.
Full disclosure, I’ve never worked at the Pentagon, but I’ve worked on a number of doomed Pentagon projects, most notably MEADS and the Future Combat Systems, and there is much to to be desired in the ways that we make our own weapons of mass destruction.
I’m just saying.
So, of course, the DMV took it back:
I gotta try this with my cat.
This is not my deep thought, but it just has to be shared.
H/t JR at the Stellar Parthenon BBs.
The USAF is looking for a 2000 lb missile replacement for its 5000+ lb guided free-fall bombs for bunker busting and the like, to quote Shrek, I think that someone is compensating:
Penetrate faster, harder with new AFRL weapon
……………An Air Force Research Laboratory fact sheet with a 2011 time-stamp for public release approval tells us that a 2,000lb-class weapon with 5,000lb-class penetration capability could be available within three years.“Future fighters will be able to deliver bunker-busting capabilities currently associated with the bomber fleet,” the fact sheet says.I found the fact sheet for the High Velocity Penetrating Weapon (HVPW) in the AFRL munitions directorate booth at the Air Warfare Symposium a few days ago. The document reveals the USAF has shifted its focus on next-generation penetrator technology on a couple of different levels.
The folks at the USAF do seem to spend a suspiciously large amount of time talking about “penetrators”, don’t they?
BTW, running the numbers, the kinetic energy of a 2500 kg system at 300 m/s (about 650 mi/h), is 112.5 MJ, so for a 1000 kg system, you would need a velocity of only (475 m/s) 1800 m/s km/h (1080 mi/hr) to get the same kinetic energy.
(added correction in red D’oh!!!)
Well, the is a case where someone gets completely Pwn36 (owned) on live TV.
Ouch.
H/t Barry Ritholtz.
*No apologies for the pun.
Heh.
I was doing a Google™ search, and found this: