The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State …
According to TheNewspaper.com, some very patriotic citizens in Washington decided to decorate their town. Or rather, their local red light cameras.
Seeing the red, white, and blue flying is usually enough to make me smile. Seeing red, white, and blue used this creatively to get in the way of government revenue sources that do nothing for “public safety,” well, that just warms my heart.
The team cooled down antiprotons to temperatures colder than the surface of Pluto, as low as -443 degrees F (9.26 kelvin) — just 17 degrees above absolute zero. Physicists studying cold antimatter hope to ultimately glean insights into why the universe is made of matter rather than antimatter.
I think we need to know the definition of absolute zero before we can have warp drive.
UPDATE: Someone in the comments notes the degrees is correct, since it’s degrees F above Absolute Zero. They did not re-note the scale. That would make sense. It’s not technically correct to refer to Kelvin as degrees, so that temperature isn’t 9.2 degrees Kelvin but 9.2 Kelvin. The use of degrees make restating the scale redundant.
While checking in on Facebook this morning, Farrah posted this hysterical piece on how WWII would have been fought via Facebook.
Click to see the whole thing.
If the MSM reported your day at the range, from the Onion. Funny stuff.
I couldn’t help but laugh at this bit from Jim Geraghty today on the May Day protests in California that lead to the destruction of the front of an Urban Outfitters store.
By the way, I cannot tell the difference between the trust-fund radicals who dress in black and try to smash stuff at Urban Outfitters and the tragically hip trust-fund bohemians who actually shop at Urban Outfitters.
He also notes that the Georgetown location actually designed their shop to make it look the window had already been smashed. This used to irritate me to no end. You’re in Georgetown, no one is believing for one second that anyone who shops down there is so full of rage at the man that they took a brick to the window.
As some of you might have heard, the German film company who owns the rights to Downfall has been issuing DMCA Takedown notices to YouTube trying to get the parodies pulled from the Internets. That, of course, has created the inevitable Hitler Parody:
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It’s an old and tired joke, but I’m sorry to see it go. Especially like this. The great irony is I actually bought a copy of Downfall because of the parodies, and it’s a great piece of historical drama. I would highly recommend it.
This John Cleese skit predates the Internet, but it’s highly appropriate:
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I think anyone who’s been involved in political endeavors, especially in the Internet Age can relate.
Two new alien species of Bidens were found in Bulgaria. Someone needs to e-mail these researchers and point out there’s alien Bidens in Delaware and Washington D.C. too.
h/t Volokh
I’ll admit that I have an offbeat sense of humor. So I’ll admit that I was way too amused by this description of a new release posted to Hacking Netflix today:
Nine strangers face the mind-bender of a lifetime when a hooded madman locks them in a basement and announces that he will slay one of them every 10 minutes until they uncover the mysterious connection they all share. But starting without a single clue, can any of them solve the puzzle in less than 90 minutes?
Movie time: 86 minutes.
So I guess at least one survives. Damn.
This is the best summary of the McDonald transcript EVER. If you haven’t already seen it linked from other gun blogs, go read it.