Little Miss Attila—and her minion-Huns—have moved; please adjust your bookmarks accordingly.

A special shout-out goes to Pixy Misa and the rest of the Munuvians, for whom I still retain a huge amount of affection. I simply wanted to try WordPress, and thought that a fresh blog might give me more control over the levels of comment spam I was experiencing.

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Iowahawk hits 'em all into a sub-half-inch group with Congress' new car: the "Lemon":

It's in the way you dress. The way you boogie down. The way you sign your unemployment check. You're a man who likes to do things your own way. And on those special odd-numbered Saturdays when driving is permitted, you want it in your car. It's that special feeling of a zero-emissions wind at your back and a road ahead meandering with possibilities. The kind of feeling you get behind the wheel of the Pelosi GTxi SS/Rt Sport Edition from Congressional Motors.

All new for 2012, the Pelosi GTxi SS/Rt Sport Edition is the mandatory American car so advanced it took $100 billion and an entire Congress to design it. We started with same reliable 7-way hybrid ethanol-biodeisel-electric-clean coal-wind-solar-pedal power plant behind the base model Pelosi, but packed it with extra oomph and the sassy styling pizazz that tells the world that 1974 Detroit is back again -- with a vengeance.

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I need to know how it affects the probability that the tiny moth inside my car will eventually leave the Cruiser if I open the windows.

And what that experience might be like from the moth's point of view. If there are any paratroopers who read blogs, they might be able to tell me. (And when, BTW, did we stop using paratroopers for our regular armed forces; do they still have them in Special Forces? They must. Please advise.)

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1 paratroopers == airborne, such as the 82nd and 101st. Most (all?) special operators have their airborne badge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Parachutist_Badge

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at November 21, 2008 10:24 AM (1hM1d)

2 I need to know how it affects the probability that the tiny moth inside my car will eventually leave the Cruiser if I open the windows. It affects the probability proportionally to 1-√(v²/c² where v is the relative velocity between the moth and the car. If the moth is moving at 5 cm/sec, this is around 0.9999999998 --- in other words, about 2 parts in 10 billion. And what that experience might be like from the moth's point of view. A whole lot like when the car is stopped. The wind moving into the windows, though, probably cause it a lot of trouble. And when, BTW, did we stop using paratroopers for our regular armed forces...? What you mean "we"?

Posted by: Charlie (Colorado) at November 21, 2008 02:03 PM (bE/kw)

3 I need to know how it affects the probability that the tiny moth inside my car will eventually leave the Cruiser if I open the windows. It affects the probability proportionally to 1-√(v²/c² where v is the relative velocity between the moth and the car. If the moth is moving at 5 cm/sec, this is around 0.9999999998 --- in other words, about 2 parts in 10 billion. And what that experience might be like from the moth's point of view. A whole lot like when the car is stopped. The wind moving into the windows, though, probably cause it a lot of trouble. And when, BTW, did we stop using paratroopers for our regular armed forces...? What you mean "we"?

Posted by: Charlie (Colorado) at November 21, 2008 02:06 PM (bE/kw)

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(That's S-I-G-H-T, for those of you who spend too much time online, or work in architecture/construction.)

Dear Joy:

AR-15s and similar rifles are flying off gun store shelves these days. If you're one of the buyers, here's your chance to put a top-of-the-line red dot sight on your new rifle - and at the same time, help defend all your guns against anti-gun groups and the Obama administration.

Here's how it works: Aimpoint, Inc. and MidwayUSA will donate $100 to the NRA Institute for Legislative Action for every Aimpoint CompM4 electronic red-dot sight package purchased by NRA members from MidwayUSA through the end of 2008.

This is a great opportunity to get an Aimpoint CompM4 at a special price and help NRA-ILA defend our firearms freedoms. The Aimpoint CompM4 is currently used by the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force as the M68 Close Combat Optic. It is also in service with the Navy and the Marine Corps.

In an extra show of support, MidwayUSA will pay for a one-year NRA membership for every non-member who buys an Aimpoint through this program. So go ahead and forward this message - you can help a friend get a great scope and a free NRA membership at the same time!

This special package includes an Aimpoint CompM4, quick-release mount, spacer for AR-15 or similar rifles, killFlash anti-reflection device and MILSPEC rubber lens covers. The program ends Dec. 31, 2008, so to order your Aimpoint and support NRA-ILA, visit www.nraila.org/aimpoint today!

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I did!

UPDATE: Of course, I voted "present." Hope that counts.

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Not as funny as Scandinavian cartoons that portray the Prophet Muhammad, but funny.

You know what would be really funny? Dressing as Theo Van Gogh, right after his murder; that would be hilarious!

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How could someone hang around the planet for an entire century, working her butt off, and never find gainful employment?

Bonus question: how many typos can you find at the link? The article was clearly a surprise, like the one we ran at my junior high newspaper about our edior/teacher, Carol Jago (then McGonigle). Carol pretended not to know about it until it ran, which was sporting of her. As I recall, the effort was spearheaded by Cindy Rogoway, though I think Sandi Levin was also in on the plot.

They weren't going to tell me until afterward, because I wasn't in the "in crowd." But someone had to proofread the damned thing.

Hat tip: Caltech Girl, who would like to know whether I eat Cheetos. I do not. I have obsessive-compulsive habits, but they do not include fluorescent orange dye.

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You Bet Your Life It Is . . . "

But sometimes that's a good thing.

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He is sooo good.

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Um, not Kevin Steele.

I was thinking of Michael Steele. For RNC Chair, that is. Let's face it: we can't even begin to address our problems over the next 2-4 years without tapping one talented guy to clear out the deadwood over there, sharpen our message, bring us up-to-date on technology, and create the environment for us to re-take the Congress in 2010.

After we've done that, we can start looking at the rather awesome assortment of new talent we've discovered across the country, and figure out which two guys/gals are going to lead the charge in 2012 (and which other whip-smart people will be working behind the scenes, and not-quite-behind-the-scenes).

Let's do it.

And . . . I didn't mean this Michael Steele, either:

But that, my friends . . . aw, that is a woman of steel. Don't get me started.

Hey! How about a (Michael) Steele and (Michael) Steele ticket in 2012? And don't give me that "she isn't qualified" baloney! If you can rock and roll, you can be a VP.

And she'd be learning from the best!

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a blog about Animation. I scrolled around, saw nothing whatsoever about Freakazoid!, and left.

Trash.

Now this is an animation blog.

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"My relationship with your blog is abusive. I am breaking up with it."

Hey; don't go away mad!

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the "find Joy's other blogs" contest.

See if you can find the other "Attila Girl" locations on the web!

If no one finds them all, I won't post a picture of my breasts.

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I was not informed that working full-time would cut into my blogging routine.

Oh, sure: I know what you're thinking. "Why didn't you do the arithmetic? Take 24 hours, subtract eight for sleep and 1.5-2 for drive time . . . "

I'm telling you, I just didn't realize. There should be some kind of disclosure form or something . . .

So. Blogging light, etc. etc. and so on and so forth. But you are still required to stop over here every day and pay obeisance to me. Preferably in cash.

In a pinch, however, I'll take the traffic.

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A paper explains why some of them may be misguided, but—as they see it—we are evil.

And D91 of AoS adds his own insights on how to appeal to those with liberal leanings.

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From R. Stacy McCain:

Marriage is a great deal for men, much better than being single, provided you get the right woman. The whole point of dating is to find that one woman. But young men are so damned superficial and selfish nowadays, and caught in a passive-aggressive loop, alternating between callous womanizing and self-pity.

Good women are much easier to find than good men. Over the years in Washington, I'd meet nice young single women and think, "Wow, I really ought to try to introduce her to a nice guy." And then I'd realize, "Wait a minute -- this is Washington, DC. There are no nice guys here."

Guys, let me give you a clue: Your low self-esteem is poisoning the well. You figure that any girl who actually likes you must be a desperate loser. So you ignore or disparage the women who are actually available, while chasing after women who hate you. You are only interested in super-beautiful women, because having a super-beautiful woman validates your own attractiveness. And yet you become angry at her demand that you bring something to the table to validate her.

Do you see the self-defeating vicious cycle you're setting up for yourself? Try this: Just forget about looks. Hang out with some fat chicks and try to learn to enjoy women as human beings, rather than as status symbols or as a means to an end.

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The economy is affecting everything.

HOWLING FJORD - High above the Great Sea, once the site of fierce battles, Valgarde settlement now sits empty. Stung by plummeting real estate prices, Alliance and Horde forces have returned to Kalimdor, leaving behind foreclosure signs and broken dreams. All across Northrend such depressing sights abound. In Dragonblight, Wyrmrest Temple is boarded up, its five dragon shrines covered in graffiti. "Malygos sucks" and other obscenities have been scrawled across the walls by unemployed furbolgs.

And at Icecrown Citadel, once the objective of a massive invasion, empty Pabst bottles and cigarette butts littered the floor around the Frozen Throne. The rune blade Frostmourne was now used to open cans of chili. And the most powerful entity in all Warcraft picked up a canvas sack full of fliers and shuffled off to work.

"Go where the money is," chuckled the Litch King ruefully . . . .

(Cross-posted at Right Wing News.)

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. . . on the efficacy of the War on Drugs.

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HOLLYWOOD - Long-time UPI White House correspondent Helen Thomas will co-star as the cannibal witch in Dimension Films' upcoming production of Hansel and Gretel. Director Chris Abbott said, "Helen nailed the audition . . . "

Read the whole thing.

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We are losing a generation of shootists rather quickly—as well as enduring the early departure of a few, like Dave Arnold and Gary Sitton, who died way too young—one from living too cleanly, from being too good for this world; and the other from living too hard. (And yet he was a magical writer, and a fine human being.*)

(For those who do not know, Thomas Siatos was the editor of Guns & Ammo magazine, and went on to head up Petersen's entire "Outdoor Group," which was quite the empire within an empire, and included Hunting, Handguns, and myriad smaller publications. These magazines are now published by InterMedia Outdoors.)

* I'll pay cold, hard cash for anyone who can catch my literary allusion this time. I suspect I've got you guys stumped.

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