A guy who was known as a anti-gun-violence activist attacked a woman in public in broad daylight and got shot by the police for his troubles. That’s straightforward enough… but this headline is a little grammatically *off*. Man Killed by Officer Known for Anti-Gun Violence Campaign See, it wasn’t the police officer known for…
Disgraced former Senator Al Franken worrying that if the Republicans take over the House and/or Senate, not only will the Democrats plans not be allowed to pass, but there might actually be investigations of the many valid criminal accusations that have been made against his side of the aisle. While that outcome would be great,…
The worlds of Design Engineers and Machinists are very different… but they have to meet up at some point, or things don’t get done. I saw a lot of the sort of problems described here back when I was in aerospace; similarly, the worlds of Engineers and Draftsmen were well separated, which was an issue…
Due to repeated and ongoing issues with the original Unwanted Blog that has been running since 2008, *this* is now the official blog, and the old one is the backup blog. New posts will appear here first, there later (if at all, if the problems persist). So far this blog seems to be working. However,…
So the latest news freakout over Elon Musk buying twitter is that he is banning people impersonating him: Furious Elon Musk Pledges to Ban Anyone Who Changes Their Display Name to “Elon Musk” Twitter bans comedian Kathy Griffin for impersonating Elon Musk And so on. Lots of lefties are screeching that this means Musk…
The model AGM-86 Air Launch Cruise Missile began life as a decoy missile, sort of an updated “Quail.” it was decided that the decoy could carry a nuclear warhead, and thus provide a lot more service; this began its development as a cruise missile. As originally envisaged, it had to fit in the some bays…
White House VIOLATED ethics guidelines by deleting fat-checked tweet saying Biden had given American seniors the biggest boost in social security, watchdog group claims Short form: the White House proudly tweeted that Social Security recipients were going to get a big fat increase in their payments; this, the tweet claimed, was the result of…
I didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to Queen Elizerbeth of Britainland’s funeral a while back, so I don’t know if this was the approach that was selected… but it should have been. @_richardparry_ Hi there just been working on trying to reduce wait times to view the Queen’s coffin at Westminster, let me…
